One of the most important socio-psychological characteristics of personality is the attitude to one’s health and its self-rating. Against this background the presence of stress in family during working by expeditionary rotation schedule in the Arctic region takes on special significance and negatively impacts on commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
OBJECTIVE
To determine the associations of stress in family, parameters of attitude to one’s own health and its self-rating among subjects employed in the industrial enterprises of oil and gas extraction complex in the Arctic region depending on work experience by expeditionary rotation schedule.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The study object was «random» representative sample of males working by expeditionary rotation schedule in YEVRAKOR industrial enterprise in north-polar latitude of Tyumen region. The sample included 750 males aged from 25 to 54, response was 82.4%. The assessment of work experience by expeditionary rotation schedule in the Arctic region was carried out on three parameters: 1) work experience equal or less than 3 years; 2) work experience from 4 to 9 years; 3) work experience equal or more than 10 years. The determination of stress in family, parameters of attitude to their health and its self-rating was done by analysis of standard WHO MONICA-MOPSY questionnaire.
RESULTS
A statistically significant decrease in the self-rating of health among subjects working by expeditionary rotation schedule has been noted in cases of family stress presence regardless of the work experience in the Arctic region. A statistically significant decrease in care for their health and decrease in number of visits to doctor when feeling sick was found in the groups with long work experience in the Arctic region (from 4 to 9 years and equal or more than 10 years). There was a marked lack of health care in cases when work experience was equal or more than 10 years. A low responsibility for health was noted in cases of family stress regardless of work experience by expeditionary rotation schedule in the Arctic region and a statistically significant decrease in visits to a doctor was found in cases of long work experience by expeditionary rotation schedule.
CONCLUSION
Thus, it is necessary to use the results on the determination of associations of stress in family and parameters of attitude to health, its self-rating in organized population of workers of oil and gas extraction complex, depending on work experience by expeditionary rotation schedule as an important part of comprehensive preventive program in industrial enterprises of Arctic region.