Work related complaints of neck, shoulder and arm among computer office workers: A cross-sectional evaluation of prevalence and risk factors in a developing country
Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, ISSN: 1476-069X, Vol: 10, Issue: 1, Page: 70
2011
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Background: Complaints of arms, neck and shoulders (CANS) is common among computer office workers. We evaluated an aetiological model with physical/psychosocial risk-factors. Methods. We invited 2,500 computer office workers for the study. Data on prevalence and risk-factors of CANS were collected by validated Maastricht-Upper-extremity-Questionnaire. Workstations were evaluated by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Visual-Display-Terminal workstation-checklist. Participants' knowledge and awareness was evaluated by a set of expert-validated questions. A binary logistic regression analysis investigated relationships/correlations between risk-factors and symptoms. Results: Sample size was 2,210. Mean age 30.8 ± 8.1 years, 50.8% were males. The 1-year prevalence of CANS was 56.9%, commonest region of complaint was forearm/hand (42.6%), followed by neck (36.7%) and shoulder/arm (32.0%). In those with CANS, 22.7% had taken treatment from a health care professional, only in 1.1% seeking medical advice an occupation-related injury had been suspected/diagnosed. In addition 9.3% reported CANS-related absenteeism from work, while 15.4% reported CANS causing disruption of normal activities. A majority of evaluated workstations in all participants (88.4%,) and in those with CANS (91.9%) had OSHA non-compliant workstations. In the binary logistic regression analyses female gender, daily computer usage, incorrect body posture, bad work-habits, work overload, poor social support and poor ergonomic knowledge were associated with CANS and its' severity In a multiple logistic regression analysis controlling for age, gender and duration of occupation, incorrect body posture, bad work-habits and daily computer usage were significant independent predictors of CANS. Conclusions: The prevalence of work-related CANS among computer office workers in Sri Lanka, a developing, South Asian country is high and comparable to prevalence in developed countries. Work-related physical factors, psychosocial factors and lack of awareness were all important associations of CANS and effective preventive strategies need to address all three areas. © 2011 Ranasinghe et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=79961102537&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069x-10-70; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816073; http://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-069X-10-70; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1476-069X-10-70; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1476-069X-10-70.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1476-069X-10-70/fulltext.html; https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069x-10-70; https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-069X-10-70
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