Drivers, who are responsible for safety, need a sound mind and body, but they often have to work too many shifts or night shifts, which leads to a high level of fatigue and sleep disorder. Sleep disorder can cause not only bodily malfunctions, but also increase of accidents due to fatigue and drowsi...
Drivers, who are responsible for safety, need a sound mind and body, but they often have to work too many shifts or night shifts, which leads to a high level of fatigue and sleep disorder. Sleep disorder can cause not only bodily malfunctions, but also increase of accidents due to fatigue and drowsiness, and consequently low productivity and high rate of industrial disasters ensue. Moreover, commercial drivers are faced with the conditions of meals en route, too frequent drinking to alleviate stress, health problems resulting from smoking and lack of exercise, so more importance has been put on how drivers could maintain and improve their health.
With an objective of providing basic data for effective nutrition education to raise awareness of health and lead to change dietary habits, this work surveyed commercial drivers who are being trained at Korea Transportation Safety Authority about their usual diet, how much they comply with the dietary guidelines for Koreans, awareness of their health condition, knowledge of dietary supplements.
To achieve the objective of this work, a total of 1,000 questionnaires were distributed to local commercial drivers nationally from October 19 to November 30, 2014, and a total of 597 copies were statistically analyzed discarding those which have insufficient information and incorrect or invalid responses.
From the male commercial drivers’ distribution by age, “over 50”is the highest with 293 subjects (49.1%), and “under 2,000,000 KRW” by income is at the peak with 357 subjects (59.9%). By marriage, the married account for 455 subjects (76.2%), which is the highest, and the respondents with “3~4 family members” are the highest with 379(63.5%).
Male drivers’ service areas are divided into 7 regions and analyzed. Among Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do, Gyeongsang-do, Jeju-do, Gyeongsang-do accounts for the highest percentage with 121 subjects (20.3%), and by duration of service “under 5 ~10 years” is the highest with 284 subjects (47.6%). As for daily average working hours, “7 ~ 11 hours” is the highest with 336 subjects (56.3%), and intra-city bus accounts for the highest percentage with 181 subjects (30.3%) by type of vehicle.
For male drivers’dietary habits, the items are divided into three categories, one of which is related to meal regularity such as whether they have three meals in a day, whether they have breakfast, whether they eat regularly. The second category is about meal balance such as whether they usually eat cereals, meat, vegetables with balance, and the third of which refers to diet healthiness such as whether they usually have processed food, whether they often have animal fat. The results were 2.89, 2.74, 2.75 respectively, which means the subjects are not aware of the meal regularity, meal balance, and diet healthiness of their diet more than the average.
Regarding how well male commercial drivers follow the dietary guidelines for Koreans, such items as “Try to eat different kinds of foods including cereals, vegetables, dairy products, etc”, “Try to avoid salty foods and try a bland diet”,“Increase physical activity to maintain a healthy weight and eat accordingly”, are poorly followed. Among them, the score of the item “Try to enjoy our traditional diet based on boiled rice”is lowest with 1.77.
The results of surveying male drivers on the awareness of their health condition showed that the most serious problem was fatigue (3.36), which was followed by lack of sleep (3.09), stiff shoulders (2.98), headache (2.69), dizziness (2.62) in the order.
In response to a question “Do you know the components and efficacies of the dietary supplements you eat?” over the half of the drivers proved they don’t have proper knowledge about it. They bought dietary supplements, by the highest rate of 45.2% (270 subjects), through their family members’ recommendations. Among the reasons why they eat them, “to be healthy” accounts for the highest percentage of 38.1% (227 subjects), which was followed by “to lessen fatigue” with 175 subjects (29.4%),“to prevent diseases” with 71 subjects (11.7%), “to supplement nutrients”with 61 subjects (10.2%),“by family members’ recommendations” with 42 subjects (7.1%) in the order. For a question of whether they continue to eat dietary supplements, the affirmative subjects account for 407 (68.2%), which means that many drivers have a willingness to continue to use them. The results showed that most drivers bought dietary supplements to lessen fatigue and to maintain their health rather than for medical purposes such as preventing diseases. The main reasons which some subjects do not want to buy any dietary supplements, were not because of side effects but because of its uselessness and ineffectiveness.
Based on the results above, male commercial drivers seem not to follow the dietary guidelines for Koreans so well, and consider their health condition is not so good, and so they depend on dietary supplements to lessen fatigue even if they don’t have enough knowledge of them. Therefore, continuous nutrition education is required to convince male drivers that the practice of healthy and well balanced diet, proper guide for dietary supplements are the very foundation of lessening fatigue and ultimately of their mental and physical health.
Drivers, who are responsible for safety, need a sound mind and body, but they often have to work too many shifts or night shifts, which leads to a high level of fatigue and sleep disorder. Sleep disorder can cause not only bodily malfunctions, but also increase of accidents due to fatigue and drowsiness, and consequently low productivity and high rate of industrial disasters ensue. Moreover, commercial drivers are faced with the conditions of meals en route, too frequent drinking to alleviate stress, health problems resulting from smoking and lack of exercise, so more importance has been put on how drivers could maintain and improve their health.
With an objective of providing basic data for effective nutrition education to raise awareness of health and lead to change dietary habits, this work surveyed commercial drivers who are being trained at Korea Transportation Safety Authority about their usual diet, how much they comply with the dietary guidelines for Koreans, awareness of their health condition, knowledge of dietary supplements.
To achieve the objective of this work, a total of 1,000 questionnaires were distributed to local commercial drivers nationally from October 19 to November 30, 2014, and a total of 597 copies were statistically analyzed discarding those which have insufficient information and incorrect or invalid responses.
From the male commercial drivers’ distribution by age, “over 50”is the highest with 293 subjects (49.1%), and “under 2,000,000 KRW” by income is at the peak with 357 subjects (59.9%). By marriage, the married account for 455 subjects (76.2%), which is the highest, and the respondents with “3~4 family members” are the highest with 379(63.5%).
Male drivers’ service areas are divided into 7 regions and analyzed. Among Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do, Gyeongsang-do, Jeju-do, Gyeongsang-do accounts for the highest percentage with 121 subjects (20.3%), and by duration of service “under 5 ~10 years” is the highest with 284 subjects (47.6%). As for daily average working hours, “7 ~ 11 hours” is the highest with 336 subjects (56.3%), and intra-city bus accounts for the highest percentage with 181 subjects (30.3%) by type of vehicle.
For male drivers’dietary habits, the items are divided into three categories, one of which is related to meal regularity such as whether they have three meals in a day, whether they have breakfast, whether they eat regularly. The second category is about meal balance such as whether they usually eat cereals, meat, vegetables with balance, and the third of which refers to diet healthiness such as whether they usually have processed food, whether they often have animal fat. The results were 2.89, 2.74, 2.75 respectively, which means the subjects are not aware of the meal regularity, meal balance, and diet healthiness of their diet more than the average.
Regarding how well male commercial drivers follow the dietary guidelines for Koreans, such items as “Try to eat different kinds of foods including cereals, vegetables, dairy products, etc”, “Try to avoid salty foods and try a bland diet”,“Increase physical activity to maintain a healthy weight and eat accordingly”, are poorly followed. Among them, the score of the item “Try to enjoy our traditional diet based on boiled rice”is lowest with 1.77.
The results of surveying male drivers on the awareness of their health condition showed that the most serious problem was fatigue (3.36), which was followed by lack of sleep (3.09), stiff shoulders (2.98), headache (2.69), dizziness (2.62) in the order.
In response to a question “Do you know the components and efficacies of the dietary supplements you eat?” over the half of the drivers proved they don’t have proper knowledge about it. They bought dietary supplements, by the highest rate of 45.2% (270 subjects), through their family members’ recommendations. Among the reasons why they eat them, “to be healthy” accounts for the highest percentage of 38.1% (227 subjects), which was followed by “to lessen fatigue” with 175 subjects (29.4%),“to prevent diseases” with 71 subjects (11.7%), “to supplement nutrients”with 61 subjects (10.2%),“by family members’ recommendations” with 42 subjects (7.1%) in the order. For a question of whether they continue to eat dietary supplements, the affirmative subjects account for 407 (68.2%), which means that many drivers have a willingness to continue to use them. The results showed that most drivers bought dietary supplements to lessen fatigue and to maintain their health rather than for medical purposes such as preventing diseases. The main reasons which some subjects do not want to buy any dietary supplements, were not because of side effects but because of its uselessness and ineffectiveness.
Based on the results above, male commercial drivers seem not to follow the dietary guidelines for Koreans so well, and consider their health condition is not so good, and so they depend on dietary supplements to lessen fatigue even if they don’t have enough knowledge of them. Therefore, continuous nutrition education is required to convince male drivers that the practice of healthy and well balanced diet, proper guide for dietary supplements are the very foundation of lessening fatigue and ultimately of their mental and physical health.
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