The reliability of Turkish translation of quick exposure check (QEC) for risk assessment of work related musculoskeletal disorders

Özcan, Emel; Kesiktaş, Nur; Alptekin, Kerem; Ozcan, Ece E.

doi:10.3233/bmr-2008-21107

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“…A study on intra-and inter-rater reliability of risk assessments using к w , ICC, and KCC to measure agreement between assessors [25] found that when using these methods on the same data, к w gave the lowest score and KCC the highest; this needs to be taken into consideration when comparing studies using different statistical methods. Other studies investigating the reliability of the English and translated versions of the QEC have shown moderate to good levels of inter-rater reliability [71,74,77,147]. Two of these studies [74,147] compared assessments made using video recordings of work tasks, with the workers' assessments provided in written format, while the other two used live assessments like the current study.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Other studies investigating the reliability of the English and translated versions of the QEC have shown moderate to good levels of inter-rater reliability [71,74,77,147]. Two of these studies [74,147] compared assessments made using video recordings of work tasks, with the workers' assessments provided in written format, while the other two used live assessments like the current study.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Other studies [71,74,77,147] have compared the reliability of the summary scores of the QEC and not individual items, which makes direct comparisons with this study difficult. The total scores of the QEC are derived from several different items, which means that different scores for the individual items can give the same total score.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, which causes sickness absence and early retirement. Manual labor, awkward postures and repetitive work are commonly reported as causes for work-related neck disorders. Both neck pain and heavy physical work have been linked to lower levels of work ability. The overall aim of this thesis was to gain knowledge of how work demands can influence the work ability and sickness absence of workers with neck and upper extremity disorders, and also investigate a method that measures work demands. One cross-sectional study, two longitudinal studies and one experimental study were included in this thesis. Papers I-III uses material from Statistics Sweden (SCB) "Work environment" and "Work related disorders" surveys. Sickness absence data from the Longitudinal integration database for health insurance and labor market studies (LISA) database were also used in these studies. The relationship between exposure to work demands (high or low) or work place interventions (yes or no) were compared to work ability or sickness absence. Paper IV investigated the inter-rater reliability of the summary scores and individual items of a method to measure work demands, the Quick Exposure Check (QEC), by comparing two simultaneous assessments of 51 work tasks. The results showed that a lower level of physically demanding work and having high control over ones work can result in lower levels of sickness absence and promote excellent work ability for workers with neck pain, especially among older workers (Papers I, II). In Paper III it was found that work place interventions that improves neck pain were associated with fewer number of sickness absence days. Paper IV found that the QEC has good reliability in total scores but a few of the individual items showed low reliability. The results from this thesis can be used in different work settings, to promote work ability and prevent sickness absence by employers and occupational healthcare professionals.

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Section: Reliability Of the Swedish Qecmentioning

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Section: Reliability Of the Swedish Qecmentioning

confidence: 89%

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“…The QEC ergonomic assessment is a powerful tool that should be used in the industry in order to evaluate people´s health and safety risks [3,8]. For this reason, it was decided to use the ergonomic QEC tool because is widely accepted by ergonomists and health professionals in order to detect risk factors.…”

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“…This tool is used both for research and for making changes in the workplace. It is used in countries such as France, Norway, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Spain, South Africa, Brazil and Singapore [3][4][5].…”

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Risk positions assessment in order to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the tube manufacturing industry

Cuellar¹,

Velazquez²,

Solís³

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There are many activities performed in a repeated way and in a risk positions that cause fatigue and subsequently may origin cumulative trauma diseases and musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Although the disorders may appear as a consequence of an intense effort, its development is a multifactorial process, but it usually occurs because the prolonged exposure in certain positions or movements. The disorders can be of different severity degree, since mild periodic symptoms to serious synchronous conditions. One of the main reasons why this kind of disorders occurs is due to the bad designed workplaces. In order to detect bad designed workplaces are important to evaluate consistently the jobs, especially the manual activities in the industry. Ergonomic assessments allow having a vision of the work situation in order to design safe, healthy and productive jobs. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the process expansion of the tube fabrication industry, and implement an evaluation system musculoskeletal complaint in the industry. The Quick Exposure Check (QEC) assessment is one of the observational tools, developed for health professional to detect risk exposure and it was used to evaluate the process expansion of the tube fabrication industry. The process was analyzed during two months, evaluating frequency, duration and load weight. The body segments evaluated were back, shoulder, arm, wrist and neck. The study was conducted among 30 workers. In this study we have evaluated the prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) symptoms among workers of the process expansion of the tube fabrication and the prevalence reported by the respondents was very high; 80% of respondents reported having pain in the shoulders at the end of the day. Shoulder pain is one of the most common presenting complaints in the daily clinical practice and in the process expansion of the tube fabrication; this accumulative trauma disease can be provoked. Our purpose was to implement the evaluation system CCR in the process expansion of the tube fabrication industry.

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The Quick Exposure Check (QEC) Model Proposal Based on Fuzzy Logic for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Risk Assessment

Kose

Karabayır

Çevikcan

2019

Intelligent and Fuzzy Techniques in Big Data Analytics and Decision Making

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The reliability of Turkish translation of quick exposure check (QEC) for risk assessment of work related musculoskeletal disorders

Cited by 10 publications

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The Quick Exposure Check (QEC) — Inter-rater reliability in total score and individual items

The Quick Exposure Check (QEC) — Inter-rater reliability in total score and individual items

Risk positions assessment in order to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the tube manufacturing industry

The Quick Exposure Check (QEC) Model Proposal Based on Fuzzy Logic for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Risk Assessment

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