Prevalence of Selected Musculoskeletal Disorders among the Students of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya

Senarath, Mkid; Thalwaththe, Strd; Tennakoon, Sub

doi:10.23937/2572-3243.1510097

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“…[22,23] Regarding the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain among undergraduate students, 91.7% reported musculoskeletal pain, which was high compared to undergraduate students in medical and other health sciences colleges, which ranged from 60-73%. [24,25] In addition, this study showed a decline in musculoskeletal pain as the undergraduate students' academic years progressed, which was also supported by studies conducted on medical and other health specialty students. [25] However, after adjusting the P-value, this decrease was not statistically signi cant.…”

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Prevalence and Awareness of Ergonomics and Physical Activities in Controlling Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Dental Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Sabbagh¹,

Shagagi²,

Basheer³

et al. 2021

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Background To assess the prevalence and awareness of ergonomics and physical activities in controlling work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among dental students, interns, and postgraduates at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted at King Abdulaziz University through a validated self-administered questionnaire. It was distributed among dental students from the fourth academic year to postgraduate level. Results A total of 402 students responded to the questionnaire; 337 (83.8%) reported suffering from musculoskeletal pain with 67.7% of participants did not take any measures to alleviate their symptoms and the majority reported limited physical activity. Females reported significantly higher MSD symptoms than males. Based on the location of the MSD pain, lower back pain (56.5%), neck pain (56.2%) and shoulder (50%) were the most frequently reported MSDs. There was a statistically significant difference in pain at various academic levels with undergraduate students reporting more pain than interns and postgraduate students (P= 0.009). The dental students' awareness of ergonomics and MSDs was found to be insufficient. Conclusion The prevalence of work-related MSDs is high among dental students at King Abdulaziz University, and awareness of ergonomics and MSDs among dental students is limited.

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Prevalence and Awareness of Ergonomics and Physical Activities in Controlling Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Dental Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Sabbagh¹,

Shagagi²,

Basheer³

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“…Indicator is a way to quantify teachers' scientific research ability. e setting of indicators should be very precise and easy to be effectively identified [13].…”

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Identification of Scientific Research Evaluation Indicators of College Teachers Based on Wireless Communication Network

Zhan-yong

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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The evaluation indicator of teachers’ scientific research is a very important criterion in the evaluation of teachers’ scientific research in colleges and universities. Generally, indicators are divided into three levels, and each indicator setting must be very precise. Many indicator systems for college teachers have been created at present. However, there are some problems in the identification of indicators in the evaluation process. There will be cross-repetition between indicators, and the quantification of indicators is not detailed enough, resulting in inaccurate results. To solve these problems and make the evaluation results more fair and accurate, this paper took a university as a case, a deeply discussed method based on wireless communication network, and conducts an experimental analysis on the identification of university teachers’ scientific research evaluation indicators. Using the method of wireless communication network, the problem of index identification was analyzed, and the experimental research of index identification was carried out by using wireless communication network. The results showed that the index of engineering teachers’ practical ability was relatively high, and the weight value was 0.38. The liberal arts was relatively low, and the weight value was only 0.26. However, on the cognitive index, the weight value of liberal arts was the highest, with the weight value of 0.33 while that of engineering was only 0.28. It can be seen that the method applied in this paper greatly improved the efficiency of the whole evaluation, and it made the index recognition more rapid and accurate. Therefore, further research on wireless communication networks and index identification can be considered.

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“…Covariates with p-value < 0.05 remained in the final model. We used the course variable as an adjustment, regardless of the p-value because of its relevance in other investigations (3,5,7,11) . Thus, a model was built for each QoL domain.…”

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Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress in health students and impact on quality of life

Freitas

Meireles

Ribeiro

et al. 2023

Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem

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Objective: to evaluate the association between quality of life and presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in college students in the health area. Method: cross-sectional study that included 321 students from undergraduate courses in the health area. Quality of life was measured using the World Health Organization scale, abbreviated version, in the physical, psychological, social relations and environment domains, and symptoms were assessed by the depression, anxiety and stress scale. Multivariate analysis was performed using robust linear regression to evaluate the association between quality of life and symptoms. Results: a negative association was observed between the quality of life and depression symptoms in all domains, while anxiety symptoms showed a negative association in the environment domain, and stress symptoms had a negative association in the psychological domain. Symptom severity was unfavorably associated with quality of life, that is, the greater the symptom severity, the lower the mean scores in all domains. Conclusion: symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress were prevalent and had a negative impact on students’ quality of life, especially in the presence of depressive symptoms. The decrease in scores was significantly associated with the severity of symptoms.

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Prevalence of Selected Musculoskeletal Disorders among the Students of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Prevalence and Awareness of Ergonomics and Physical Activities in Controlling Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Dental Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Prevalence and Awareness of Ergonomics and Physical Activities in Controlling Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Dental Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Identification of Scientific Research Evaluation Indicators of College Teachers Based on Wireless Communication Network

Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress in health students and impact on quality of life

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