Practice of ergonomic principles to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorder and associated factors among health care workers in public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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2021-07
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: -Healthcare providers are at risk of Work-related musculoskeletal disorders
including low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and results in discomfort, inability to perform
tasks properly, and affects the quality of life and reduces productivity. Practice of ergonomics
principle to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorder among healthcare providers is not well
studied in Ethiopia.
Objective:-This study aimed to assess the Practice of ergonomics principle to prevent work-related
musculoskeletal disorder among healthcare providers in public hospitals.
Methods:-Institutional-based Cross-sectional study design was conduct among 422 selected
health workers from February- April/2020 in three selected public hospitals found in AA City
Administration. Participants were selected by using systematic random sampling techniques. A
semi-structured self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were entered to
EPIdata 3.1 and exported to SPSS 20 for further analysis. Descriptive statistic was used to
summarize knowledge, attitude and practice and also ordinal logistic regression was applied to
test significant association.
Result: -A response rate of this study was 94%. 239 (60.2%) of the respondents were female and
224(56.4%) of them were single in marital status. 262(66%) of study respondents had a fair
knowledge level regarding WRMSDs preventions and occurrence. And again 254(64%) of the
respondents had a poor attitude toward WRMSDs. Only 9(2.3%) of the respondents were practicing
of ergonomic principles while at work. The level of knowledge was significantly associated with
practices of ergonomics principles. Practices of ergonomics principles was significantly associated
with sex of respondents, number of working days per week, number of working hours per day were
significantly associated with level of practice at p-value <0.05.
Conclusion and Recommendation: - the proportion of health workers knowledge, found to be
unsatisfactory in the prevention and occurrence of WRMSDs and poor attitude and practices of
ergonomic principles might result in a high prevalence of WRMSDs and also there are associated
factors with practice level. So it is recommended that healthcare providers should focus on
preventive strategies and health facilities and government should give attention on preventive
strategies and developing guidelines
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Work- related MSDs, knowledge, attitude, practice, ergonomic principle