Mental health status and its influencing factors on subway operators in a city / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the mental health status and its influencing factors on subway operators in a city. METHODS: A judgment sampling method was used to select 375 subway operators of a metro operation company in a city as the research subjects. The Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90) was used to investigate the mental health status of the research subjects, and the influencing factors of mental health levels in the subway operators were analyzed through the multivariate logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: The total score of SCL-90 for the mental health level of the subway operators in this city was higher than the national average scores [(142.9±45.0) vs(130.0±33.6), P<0.01].The positive rate of psychological abnormalibies was 46.9%(176/375). The multivariate logistic regression analysis results showed that the positive rate of psychological abnormalities was lower in the subway operators in the group aged above 18 and secondary college education group(P<0.01). CONCLUSION: The mental health status of subway operators in the city is generally poor. The age and educational level are important factors influencing mental health level.