title: [Remarks on the nervous disturbances observed during an occupational medicine survey in workmen employed in a metal container manufacturing plant (author's transl)].
abstract: The authors report the results of a survey carried out in order to investigate psychic disturbances in subjects working in a metal container manufacturing industry. The manufacturing process is described and an attempt made to analyse the relationships among its evolution, work organisation--mainly referring to working group composition--and work division levels reached. The possible influences of noxious environmental factors on the onset of the psychic disturbances observed are examined. The obtained data are analysed and the psychic disturbances classified as: 1) anxious, 2) depressive, and 3) psychosomatic in nature; hypotheses are formulated in order to explain the higher frequency of almost all reported disturbances in female compared to male workers. Data are reported concerning psychotropic drug treatment as well as psychiatric hospitalization in the examined subjects; and their higher prevalence in comparison with the mean general population data is underlined. Finally, some remarks are made on methodology problems, and a correct setting up of the technician/homogeneous working group relationship is said to be the fundamental support for a profitable survey such as the one performed by the authors.
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008670:Metals; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D012737:Sex Factors
chemical_list: D008670:Metals
vernacular_title: Considerazioni sui disturbi nervosi rilevati nel corso di un intervento di medicina del lavoro condotto in una fabbrica di contenitori metallici