Occupational health
Conditions
Interventions
Study setting – All the SLTB depots in Colombo district. Each depot will be considered as a cluster. 6 depots will receive the intervention while other 6 will remain as control.
Depots (clusters) will
Sponsors
Health Promotion Bureau
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. All the SLTB bus drivers who are working only as bus drivers on full time, permanent basis in buses commencing from their relevant depots in Colombo district 2. Having scores above the cut off marks indicating occupational stress using the questionnaire – Effort-Reward Imbalance model. It has three subscales namely Effort, reward and overcommitmentThe cut off mark for occupational stress level will be calculated using following formula. Effort rewards Ratio = E/R XC. E=Sum of score of the effort scale.R= Sum of score of the reward scale. C=Is a correction factor=0.545. Values beyond 1.0 takes as occupational stress. Overcomittment considered separately as an association with this cutoff value.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Bus drivers who are engaged in temporary basis, emergency services and who are engaged in Luxury fleets. 2. Bus drivers who have been diagnosed as suffering from mental illness.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| the level of occupational stress, pre and post intervention. The level of stress will be measured using the tool ‘Effort-Reward Imbalance model’. [6 months after the commencement of the intervention] | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Engaged in road rage perpetration activities more than monthly over the last 3 months would be considered positive for perpetration of road rage. Road rage will be assessed using the road rage questionnaire. [6 months after the start of the intervention] | — |
Countries
Sri Lanka
Contacts
Public ContactD.K.Illangasinghe
Registrar in Community Medicine
Outcome results
None listed