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"FLIGHT ATTENDANT"
Background
There are many occupational health hazards associated with long hours of air travel, including cosmic radiation exposure, circadian rhythm disruptions, prior and secondhand smoke exposure, for flight attendants who flew before smoking bans were initiated in the 1990s. Previous studies in flight attendants have found increased incidence of breast cancer and melanoma. However, there is little information on the relationship of airline travel and reproductive health in flight attendants. Secondhand smoke exposure has numerous negative health effects, such as increased cardiac events and respiratory infections, but its effect on reproductive health is not known. This study seeks to examine the role of secondhand smoke exposure on the miscarriage rate in flight attendants who flew before the smoking ban.
Methods
Flight attendants who flew before the smoking ban and participating in a study of health effects of secondhand smoke were asked to complete a reproductive health survey. We compared miscarriage rates of flight attendants to the general population using 2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Results
In our cohort of 145 female flight attendants exposed to secondhand smoke, there were 45 miscarriages (26%), compared with a 17.1% rate in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report (P = .002). There was no difference in secondhand smoke exposure between the flight attendants with miscarriage and the group without miscarriage (P = .93).
Conclusions
This study found an increased incidence of miscarriage in flight attendants, which was unrelated to secondhand smoke exposure. Other factors, such as circadian rhythm disruption and radiation, may be related to these reproductive health findings and require further investigation.
Ø Name of Journal : The American Journal of Medicine
Ø Title : High Prevalence and Clinical/Sociodemographic Correlates of Miscarriages Among Flight Attendants
Ø Identity : Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2017, Pages 1397-1401
Abstract
Cabin crews are crucial to the overall safety of the airline industry; they may enhance air travel safety and are directly responsible for alleviating passenger concerns. The objective of this study is to examine the relationships between proactive personality, safety attitude, safety climate, and safety behaviors among flight attendants. A self-reported questionnaire was used to collect data from 547 flight attendants, all of whom work for China Southern Airlines Ltd. The results show that proactive personality has an indirect effect on safety behaviors through the influencing of safety attitude. It is also suggested that a positive safety climate weakens the effect of proactive personality on safety behaviors. The study's findings with regard to managerial implications are provided and discussed along with potential future research directions.
Ø Name of Journal : Journal of Air Transport Management
Ø Title : The effects of safety attitude and safety climate on flight attendants’ proactive personality with regard to safety behaviors
Ø Identity : Volume 78, July 2019, Pages 80-86
Abstract
This study aims to examine the mediating effect of increasing job resources and challenge job demands on the relationship between flight attendants’ daily job crafting and daily organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Drawing on the job demands-resources model, we proposed that daily task, relational, and cognitive crafting would be positively associated with daily OCB by increasing job resources and challenge job demands. To test this proposition, we collected daily diaries from 50 Korean flight attendants for ten consecutive working days and conducted multilevel modeling and a bootstrapping analysis. Findings showed that daily task, relational, and cognitive crafting were positively related to daily OCB though the mediating process of increasing job resources and challenge job demands. Our post-hoc analysis revealed that the proposed mediating model was more viable than the alternative causal model. These findings offer novel insight for job crafting and OCB literature.
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