Occupational contact dermatitis among workers of small shoe making factories

Aim: to recognize the scale of occupational contact dermatitis among workers of small shoe making factories in lahore pakistan. study design: descriptive cross sectional. place and duration of study: lahore & from 7th november 2010 to 25th february 2011. methods: study population was comprised of 150 manually shoes making workers selected by two staged sampling technique,by proportional allocation by using table of random numbers. data was collected by a questionnaire adapted from nordic occupational skin questionnaire for hand eczema (nosq-2002). spss-10 was used to analyze the data & described in term of mean,standard deviation with percentages and cross tabulation. results: with study populace (n=150) manually shoes making workforce selected by two staged sampling technique,by comparative distribution through using table of random statistics. this study found that the frequency of occupational contact dermatitis (ocd) 15.3% (23 cases) within manual shoe makers,that was diagnosed by same consultant dermatologist of mian munshi hospital lahore. conclusion: most commonly affected site was hand. ocd increases with increased exposure of shoe makers to glues.