Abstract: The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of health training which is offered to overcome the occupational fatigue of workers. The non-randomized controlled study was performed from January to July 2018 with the participation of 302 workers employed at the Sanliurfa Organized Industrial Zone situated approximately in the Sanliurfa province of Turkey. Prior to the study, ethical approval was received, and permission was also obtained from the factory where the study would be conducted. In the study, the Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery (OFER) Scale was utilized for assessing occupational fatigue, whereas the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used for evaluating sleep quality. According to the assessment conducted in terms of the OFER Scale, it was found that a total of 119 workers had moderately high chronic fatigue. 30 of those workers with moderately high chronic fatigue were assigned to the training group, whereas 30 workers with low level of fatigue were appointed to the control group. The training group was provided with health training, SMS messages were sent by telephone as reminders to the training group every evening, and then, the results were evaluated once again at the end of 8 weeks. For the training group, it was ascertained that there was a decrease in the chronic fatigue and acute fatigue sub-scales, whereas, as a positive outcome, there was an increase in the recovery sub-scale scores (p<0.05). It was deduced that, in the framework of providing healthcare services in the workplace, health training to be delivered periodically is effective for alleviating occupational fatigue which influences occupational accidents, absenteeism at work and worker productivity and successful in promoting recovery from occupational fatigue.

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