Occupational Health Hazards and Health Status Indicators Related to Risk Among Rice Farmers in Mae Ka Sub-District, Mueang Phayao District, Phayao Province

Abstract

This research aimed to identify factors associated with these occupational health hazards and health status related to risk among rice farmers. This cross-sectional analytical study used a self-administered questionnaire to collect data from 289 rice farmers, selected through simple random sampling. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to summarize the data, Chi-square tests were used to evaluate the correlations and were analyzed by binary logistic regression.

The study results revealed that factors associated with these occupational health hazards and health status related to risk among rice farmers such as: physical hazards, biological hazards, ergonomic hazards, psychosocial hazards, were found to be significantly correlated with health status related to risk among rice farmers. It was found that rice farmers with moderate levels of biological hazards from their work were twenty-four times more likely to experience health status related to risk compared to those with low levels of biological hazards (Adjusted OR = 24.12, 95% CI = 4.28–135.90). It was found that rice farmers with moderate levels of psychosocial hazards from their work were nine times more likely to experience health status related to risk compared to those with low levels of psychosocial hazards (Adjusted OR = 9.48, 95% CI = 1.88–47.94). This factor jointly predicted 33.00% of the health status related to risk among rice farmers.

Therefore, we concluded that training on occupational health hazards and preventive measures is essential for this target audience. Effectively mitigate health status related to risks.