Identification of Subjective Fatigue Accompanied by Hypertension in Female Workers Making Tiles in Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Abstract

Introduction: The home industry has production process activities that are carried out manually. The release of the hormone adrenaline increases blood pressure through an increase in heart rate and arterial contractions, thereby accelerating the feeling of tiredness. Women’s muscles and body size are relatively smaller due to hormonal influences. As a result, female workers risk getting tired faster than men. Fatigue can lead to a decrease in productivity, poor quality of work, negatively affect the safety of workers, and increase the risk of work accidents. It aims to analyze the risk factors for subjective fatigue in female workers who have hypertension. Methods: This was a quantitative research with a cross-sectional design. The sampling technique used is the entire population of 278 female home-industry workers who have hypertension. The research location is at Karangasem Village Tile Making Home Industry Center, Wirosari District, Grobo-gan, Indonesia. The study lasted for three months. The data analysis including the Chi-square test was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 21. Results: Of a total of 278 female workers, most were married (85.3%), did not smoke (98.9%), did not consume alcohol (96%), worked longer than 8 hours (93.5%), worked more than five years (80.9%), heavy workload (80.6%). The risk factors related to subjective fatigue were alcohol consumption habits (0.019), exercise habits (0.000), body mass index (0.000), working period (0.000), and workload (0.000). Meanwhile, other risk factors were not related, age (0.315), marital status (0.744), education level (0.811), smoking habits (0.236), disease history (0.762), length of work (0.530), type of work (0.393) and work stress (0.451). Conclusion: Risk factors that have a relationship with subjective fatigue are workload, BMI, alcohol consumption habits, exercise habits, and length of service.