Musculoskeletal pain and ergonomic risks in teachers of a federal institution

Abstract

Introduction: Ergonomic risks are a major health hazard for teachers, causing musculoskeletal pain and decreasing both their quality of life and the quality of the education offered to students. Objectives: To evaluate musculoskeletal pain and ergonomic risk factors in the workplace of teachers at the São Bento do Sul Campus of the Instituto Federal Catarinense. Methods: Twenty-five teachers completed sociodemographic and ergonomic risk questionnaires, as well as the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire. The furniture and equipment at their workstations were also evaluated using a checklist. Results: Seventy two percent of teachers were male, and the mean age of the sample was 37.08±7.14 years. In response to the questionnaires, 72% of participants reported little knowledge of ergonomics and 68% said they did not apply these principles in their daily life. The main ergonomic risks to which teachers were exposed were prolonged sitting and standing, sharp corners on desks, use of laptop touchpads and inadequate monitor height. All teachers reported pain in the past 12 months, with the most frequently affected areas being the low back (60%), neck (56%) and shoulders (48%). Conclusions: These findings highlight the importance of ergonomic adaptations and changes in the work habits of teachers in order to improve their health and quality of life, while also allowing them to deliver higher-quality education to their students.

Knowledge of Low Back Pain among Primary School Teachers

“…The study results showed that lifetime prevalence among teachers was 96.5%, the 7 day prevalence was 35.3%, and point prevalence was 24.7%. Other studies reported a lifetime prevalence of LBP from 34.8 to 48.1% [ 3 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ], and 1 year prevalence from 45.6 to 64.9% [ 4 , 6 , 7 ]. These differences in the percentages may be due to the strategy for extracting data and the methodology used, sample age, sample size, the definition of LBP, or geographical factors [ 24 ].…”

“…To our knowledge, there is only one study that analyses the knowledge of teachers in relation to postural education, but this study uses a non-validated questionnaire. In that study, 8% of participants reported no knowledge of ergonomics principles, while 72% reported some knowledge, 16% had a reasonable amount of knowledge, and 4% reported extensive knowledge [ 6 ].…”

“…School teachers represent an occupational group among which there appears to be a high prevalence of low back pain (LBP). Examples of this are a 1-month prevalence of LBP of 59.2% in Hong Kong [ 5 ], a 12-month prevalence of 45.6% in China [ 4 ], 60% in Brazil [ 6 ], 64.9% in Kenya [ 7 ], and a life-time prevalence of 41.1% in Brazil [ 8 ], 44.9% in Turkey [ 9 ], 34.8% in France [ 10 ], 40.4% and 48.1% in Malaysia [ 3 , 11 ].…”

Musculoskeletal Pain and its Associated risk factors in school teachers of Lahore

“…Karaemer 18 , in 2020, evaluated musculoskeletal pain and ergonomic risk factors in the workplace of teachers at the São Bento do Sul Campus of the Institution Federal Catarinense. Results shows the main ergonomic risks to which teachers exposed were prolonged sitting and standing, sharp corners on desks, use of laptop touchpads and inadequate monitor height.…”

A kisgyermeknevelői munkakörből eredő fizikai megterhelések kapcsolata az izom-, és csontrendszer területein megjelenő problémákkal

“…Elsődlegesen azonosított kockázati tényezőnek számít a tanári pályán eltöltött idő (Ojukwu et al, 2021;Kebede et al, 2019;Mohseni Bandpei et al, 2014;Erick & Smith, 2011), az életkor (Ojukwu et al, 2021;Amit & Malabarbas, 2020;Ceballos & Santos, 2015;Mohseni Bandpei et al, 2014), a női nem (Althomali et al, 2021;Elias et al, 2019;Kebede et al, 2019;Ceballos & Santos, 2015;Karakaya et al, 2015;Erick & Smith, 2011), a magasabb testtömegindex (Vega-Fernández et al, 2021;Kraemer, Moreira & Guimarães, 2020;Mohseni Bandpei et al, 2014), a dohányzás (Althomali et al, 2021), az alacsonyabb fizetési csoportba való tartozás (Amit & Malabarbas, 2020), a munkahelyi pszichoszociális tényezők (Elias et al, 2019;Zamri et al, 2017;Ceballos & Santos, 2015;Mohseni Bandpei et al, 2014) és az alacsony vezetői támogatás (Elias et al, 2019). A mozgásszervi elváltozások a testi panaszok megjelenése mellett negatív hatást gyakorolnak az életminőségre (Vega-Fernández et al, 2021), illetve kedvezőtlenül befolyásolják az általános egészségérzetet (Karakaya et al, 2015;Dilek & Ilker, 2012), a mentális egészséget (Vega-Fernández et al, 2021;Ceballos & Santos, 2015), továbbá együttjárást mutatnak a szorongással (Zamri et al, 2017), a depresszióval (Dilek & Ilker, 2012) és az alvászavarral (Kebede et al, 2019).…”