국내 주요 역학 연구에서 사용된 설문지의 직업적, 환경적 노출 문항 비교
임지연* · 윤형석** · 박만석* · 홍영습*** · 이종구**** · 오세은***** · 강대희*
,** · 이경무*****
†*서울대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실
**서울대학교대학원 의과학과
***동아대학교 중금속노출 환경보건센터
****이종욱글로벌의학센터
*****한국방송통신대학교 환경보건학과
Comparison of Questionnaire Items Used to Evaluate the Level of Occupational and Environmental Exposure in Questionnaires for
Epidemiological Studies
Jiyeon Lim *, Hyung-Suk Yoon**, Mansuk Park*, Young Seoub Hong***, Jong-Koo Lee****, Se-Eun Oh*****, Daehee Kang*
,**, and Kyoung-Mu Lee*****
†*Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
**Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea
***Heavy Metal Exposure Environmental Health Center, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
****Department of JW Lee Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
*****Department of Environmental Health, Korea National Open University, Seoul, Korea
ABSTRACT
Objectives: Exposure assessment using questionnaires is effective in large-scale epidemiological studies.
However, a limited number of studies have evaluated the questionnaires used in epidemiologic studies in terms of occupational and environmental exposure. The purpose of this study was to summarize and evaluate questionnaire items included in major epidemiological studies conducted in Korea with regard to occupational and environmental exposure.
Methods: A total of 12 studies (four cohort studies, six large-scale cross-sectional surveys, and two panel studies) were selected for this study. Various questionnaire items related with occupational and environmental items were collected and summarized into tables.
Results: Although job type and address were included in almost all of the studies, the information on occupational or environmental exposure to specific risk factors was collected in a limited number of studies.
Moreover, questionnaire items were not standardized, warranting a continuous effort to develop questionnaires and evaluate their validity.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that validated questionnaire items focusing on occupational and environmental exposure need to be developed in order to enhance the availability of the information collected from questions in epidemiological studies.
Keywords: Environmental exposure, epidemiology, occupational exposure, questionnaire
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Corresponding author: Department of Environmental Health, Korea National Open University, Daehak-Ro 86, Dongsung- Dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea, Tel: +82-2-3668-4749, Fax: +82-2-3668-8922, E-mail: [email protected] Received: 23 November 2015, Revised: 2 March 2016, Accepted: 15 March 2016
원 저 Original articles