Quality of Life among Garbage Workers, Case Study : Southern Thailand

Abstract

This research was a survey study. The objectives of this study were to study the levels of life quality and the factors influencing life quality of garbage workers in sanitary land fill at 5 municipalities. The samples were 114 garbage workers selected by simple random sampling technique. Research instrument was a questionnaire which has a very reliability at 0.808. The statistics were percentages, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and One-way Analysis of variance. The results shown that the scores of the life quality of subjects as a whole were including 1) the work of life quality at the moderate satisfaction level 2) the family of life quality at the very satisfaction level 3) the environment of life quality at the very satisfaction level 4) the health and stress of life quality at the very satisfaction level and 5) the well-being in everyday life quality at the moderate satisfaction level, respectively. The comparisons of the subject’s quality of life, according to personal factors, showed that the subjects of different age and income had different quality of life at the statistically significant levels of 0.05.