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2017, VOL. 3 ISSUE 3, PART B

Quality of life among traffic police

Author(s): Deepti Gangwar and Dr. UV Kiran
Abstract:
Occupational environment plays a major role on the health of the exposed. The health hazards get more severe when the duration of exposure increases. Traffic police personnel are more exposed to various health hazards and their nature of duty has more bearing on their deteriorating health. The objective of the present study is to assess the quality of life of traffic police. For the present research, random sampling technique was adopted. One hundred and twenty traffic police were selected for the study from Lucknow city. World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire (WHOQOL) was used to measure Quality of life of traffic police. The sample of the study include majority 69 traffic police who has less than 10 years of job experience and 97 traffic police works between 10- 14 hours. Four domains were studied i.e physical health, psychological health, social relationship and environmental health. It is noted that social relationship is most affected followed by physical, psychological and environment health.
Pages: 103-105  |  1004 Views  731 Downloads


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How to cite this article:
Deepti Gangwar, Dr. UV Kiran. Quality of life among traffic police. Int J Home Sci 2017;3(3):103-105.

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