Abstract
Objective: To understand the self-reporting rate of respiratory symptoms in bathing staff, and analyze the differences and influencing factors in the eastern, central and western regions. Methods: From April to December 2017, adopt the method of multistage random sampling, the selection of the national 3865 effective questionnaires were bathing places practitioners, survey from personnel of course of demographic characteristics, cultural degree, family income, living habits, since the evaluation of environmental factors and respiratory symptoms such as self-reported rate content, using logistic regression model to analyze its influencing factors and regional differences. Results: The prevalence of self-reported respiratory symptoms among employees in the eastern, central, and western regions was 17.86% (269/1 506) , 10.66% (126/1 182) , and 31.01% (365/1 177) respectively. The influencing factors in the eastern region are "age", "family income", "whether drinking", "environment is suddenly cold and hot", "dust in the air" (P<0.05) ; the influencing factors in the central region are "whether drinking", "environment suddenly cold and hot", " poor ventilation", "dust in the air" (P<0.05) . The influencing factors in the western region are "gender", "whether drinking", "environment suddenly cold and hot", "poor ventilation" (P<0.05) . There are statistically significant differences in eastern, central and western regions (P<0.01) . Conclusion: The prevalence of respiratory symptoms among bathing practitioners in China varies from region to region. Economic conditions, living habits, and environmental factors are the main influencing factors.
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