Occupational Dermatoses of Health Care Workers in Korea / 대한피부과학회지

ABSTRACT

No statistics for occupational dermatoses of health care workers are available in Korea. Therefore, a survey, using a questionnaire, was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of occupational skin diseases among the health care workers employed at two large hospitals. A total of 1138 (55.8%) out of 2041 hospital workers answered the questionnaire, and 465 (40.9%) indicated that they had experienced one or more skin diseases. Of the reported skin diseases among the health care workers, contact dermatitis showed the highest prevalence (41.0%). Nurses had a higher incidence of contact dermatitis than any other health care worker group. In addition to the questionnaire survey, we also reviewed recent reports in the Korean literature to understand our current situation.