Open AccessPrevalence and health risk score of tobacco and alcohol use by using the World Health Organization Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test among construction workers in Puducherry, India
Author(s) -
Jaswant Kumar,
Ganesh Kumar Saya,
Srikanta Kanungo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_6_20
Subject(s) - medicine , smokeless tobacco , environmental health , alcohol , cross sectional study , alcohol consumption , univariate analysis , demography , tobacco use , multivariate analysis , population , pathology , biochemistry , chemistry , sociology
Construction workers are one of the important neglected occupation groups. The study aimed to assess the prevalence and health risk score of tobacco and alcohol use and its association with sociodemographic factors and self-reported morbidities among construction workers.