title: [Relationship between perceptions of safety climate at workplace and depressive disorders in manufacturing workers].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the risk factors for depressive disorders in manufacturing workers and to provide a basis for developing health promotion measures at workplace.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire survey was performed in 8085 front-line production workers from 33 manufacturing enterprises in Nanhai District of Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. The questionnaire contained a survey of demographic characteristics, the Safety Climate Scale, the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, etc. The multilevel logistic regression analysis was applied to investigate the risk factors for depressive disorders in workers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 6260 workers completed the survey; their mean age was 31.1 ± 8.6 years, and 53.2% of them were males. The multilevel logistic regression analysis showed that after adjustment for sociodemographic factors such as age, sex, and martial status, more depressive disorders were reported in the enterprises with higher score of "production safety training" than in those with lower score (OR = 1.46, 95%CI = 1.07 ∼ 1.97); fewer depressive disorders were reported in the enterprises with higher score of "colleagues concerned about production safety" than in those with lower score (OR = 0.08, 95%CI = 0.03 ∼ 0.26); the relationships of "safety warnings and precautions" and "managers concerned about production safety" with workers' depressive disorders were not statistically significant (OR = 0.78, 95%CI = 0.48 ∼ 1.28; OR = 1.08, 95%CI = 0.68 ∼ 1.72).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Depressive disorders in manufacturing workers are related to the safety climate at workplace, which indicates that a good safety climate at workplace should be created to prevent and control depressive disorders in workers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
authors.forename: Xu-hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ya-ni
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Zhi-xiong
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Shao-bin
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Xiao-ou
authors.initials: XO
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Dong-bo
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Wei-qing
authors.initials: WQ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D012449:Safety; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace; D055815:Young Adult