Collection Occupational hygiene, Issue 22, 1986 year

Chronic mental fatigue and overwork

A.O. Navakatikyan

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Kiev Research Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases

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For many types of mental work, small changes in body functions and current performance during working hours are characteristic, i.e., the formal absence of pronounced fatigue. Despite this, the data of dynamic studies carried out over several months or a year indicate a constant accumulation of unfavorable functional changes, which also affect performance. Such shifts, usually referred to as chronic fatigue, are described in schoolchildren, students, secondary school teachers, operators of various professions, whose work is characterized by high prolonged neuro-emotional stress or its combination with the influence of other unfavorable factors.

Chronic fatigue is possible only with the accumulation of unfavorable changes, when the recovery processes are insufficient for the complete normalization of the body's functions and its performance. This suggests that chronic fatigue is usually overwork.

Optimization of the working environment, including compliance with ergonomic requirements, also helps to reduce the level of tension in the body during work.

In cases where fatigue develops, it is necessary to stimulate recovery processes: an increase in the duration of rest, more extensive walks, physiotherapy exercises, etc. An important role is played by therapeutic and prophylactic procedures: a Finnish bath, massage and self-massage, reflexology, pharmacological agents, etc.

Chronic fatigue is rarely diagnosed in practice and active measures of its treatment are rarely used. Therefore, the issues of chronic fatigue require further study.

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