Quality of Life of Healthcare Workers Suffering from Occupational Contact Dermatitis.

Background: Healthcare workers are at a high risk of developing Occupational Dermatitis (OD). Affected workers often experience severe impairment of their Quality of Life (QoL). This study aimed to assess the skin-related QoL of healthcare workers with OD and to explore its related factors.

[Semi-quantitative ergonomic analysis of the biomechanical constraints within the cervical spine among screen-operators in the Tunisian universities].

Introduction: This study aims to evaluate the biomechanical constraints associated with neck pain among screen-operators.

Methods: We conducted an ergonomic study of 325 screen-operators in 25 Tunisian universities based on an anthropometric evaluation of on-screen work and on a semi-quantitative analysis of video recordings of the activities of employees over a representative period of 30 minutes.

Results: The prevalence of neck pain was 72.

The Quality of Life and Professional Future among Tunisian Workers Suffering from Occupational Asthma.

Objective: To identify the factors influencing the quality of life and professional future of patients suffering from occupational asthma.

Method: A cross-sectional study of patients compensated for occupational asthma in Tunisian center during 2004-2011. The study of quality of life was based on the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaires (AQLQ).

[Occupational asthma compensation in the Tunisian Center: cross-sectional study over a period of eight years].

Introduction: Our study aimed to highlight the epidemiological profile of patients compensated for occupational asthma in the Tunisian Center, to identify their professional characteristics and to determine compensation practices for this occupational disease.

Methods: We conducted an exhaustive retrospective study over a period of eight years. This case study included workers with occupational asthma diagnosed and compensated in the Tunisian Center by the only two medical commissions empowered to set rates for permanent partial disability caused by either a work-related injury or an occupational diseases in the seven central governorates.

[Socio professional impact of surgical release of carpal tunnel syndrome].

The objective was studying the socio-professional impact of release surgery for carpal tunnel syndrom (CTS). We conducted a cross-sectional study of patients operated for work-related CTS; data were collected in the Occupational Health Department at the University Hospital Tahar Sfar in Mahdia, Tunisia over a period of 8 years, from 1 January 2006 to December 2013. Data collection was performed using a survey form focusing on participants' socio-professional and medical characteristics and on their professional future.

Work related asthma in the textile industry.

Nowadays, occupational asthma is the most common form of occupational lung disease in the world. In some countries the textile industry remains an important source of potential agents causing occupational asthma. In the textile industry several agents such as cotton dust and dyes may cause occupational asthma.