Factors Related to Stress Among Workers in Small Garment Factories Center Areas, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR

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Stress was recognized as world-wide a major challenge to worker’s health and healthiness of the organizations. The consequence of stress was a deviation from the existing physical and psychological condition on human life. Stress could be brought from pressure at home and workplace. This cross-sectional research aimed to identify the factors related to stress among workers in small garment factory center areas, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR. 180 workers from 10 factories were cluster sampling of this study. The workers were interviewed to stress assessment by Thai standards stress test. Demographic factors were collected and analyzed to determine an association with the stress level. The study showed that mostly of workers for studied were females 93.9% and lower than 20 years old 52.2%, Long hour of the work per day, overtime working were 47.2% and the study found that stress were moderate level 88.9%. The stress of workers were significantly associated with working hours, exercise and sitting hours per day (p = 0.014, p = 0.013 and p = 0.009, respectively). Moreover the stress of workers were significantly associated with foot rest under desk, comfortable working position and shoulder pain problem (p < 0.001, p < 0.001 and p = 0.015, respectively). This research can be used to improved garment workplace design on the development of work-related stress and study guideline for setting up policy or strategy, regulations for occupational health and safety monitoring.