Work activities and musculoskeletal complaints among preschool workers

Grant, Katharyn A.; Habes, Daniel J.; Tepper, Allison

doi:10.1016/0003-6870(95)00057-7

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“…Similarly, women frequently perform household tasks such as mopping/cleaning in narrow or difficult to reach spaces that require awkward postures, such as bending, kneeling and squatting. Grant et al (1995) observed, among preschool workers with high rates of MS pain, several postures and activities that resembled the work of homemakers, including prolonged standing/walking, lifting of children and prolonged bending at the trunk. Another study of cleaners and janitorial staff whose job tasks mirror many household tasks -namely, mopping, dusting, sweeping and other cleaning activities -worked with their trunks extended, flexed, or in other awkward postures, and engaged in repetitive tasks and movements (McDiarmid et al 2000).…”

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Hard work at home: musculoskeletal pain among female homemakers

2011

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This study explores the relationship between housework and musculoskeletal symptoms among homemakers, adjusting for social, demographic and economic factors. A cross-sectional survey was carried out on 435 women from Nabaa, a low-income community in Lebanon. In total, 77% of women reported having musculoskeletal pain in the previous 12 months. Both psychosocial and physical factors showed significant associations with musculoskeletal symptoms. Related psychosocial factors included feelings of stress associated with homemaking and homemakers' number of children and self-rated health. The physical factors associated with musculoskeletal pain were feeling fatigued at the end of a housework day, working long hours and working in awkward postures or frequently engaging in repetitive hand movements. Ergonomic stressors were also associated with pain in the back and upper and lower extremities. Women from this community engage in a large number of hours of housework that, alongside other factors, were associated with high prevalence of musculoskeletal pain.Practitioner Summary: This study contributes to the literature by studying women's housework activities in association with musculoskeletal pain. The role of women in homemaking activities is explored together with physical exposures leading to reported symptoms. This study adds a perspective of a Middle Eastern context to the literature of women's musculoskeletal health.

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Hard work at home: musculoskeletal pain among female homemakers

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“…In two separate studies of Japanese preschool teachers, 17.7% 43 and 43.3% 22 reported back pain, whereas a higher prevalence of 61% has been reported among preschool teachers. 40 This study showed that high prevalence of LBP among high school teachers may be due to physical factors at work.…”

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“…Darwish and Al-Zuhair 9 reported that more than half (53.3%) of the female school teachers with LBP reported suffering from significant disabling pain. Similarly, Grant et al 22 indicated that in the USA 55% of the preschool workers who reported back pain described it as very or extremely uncomfortable.…”

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Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Associated Risk Factors Among High School Teachers in Kerman, Iran

Mohammadi

2017

J. Musculoskelet. Res.

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Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most frequent occupational health problems and accounts for a large number of losses in working days and disability for workers in modern industrialized countries. The aim of this paper was to investigate the prevalence of lower back problem and to associate risk factors among high school teachers. A cross-sectional study was conducted among high school teachers using self-administered questionnaires, which were distributed to randomly selected school teachers of 7 boys' and 10 girls' high schools across the city of Kerman and collected between October and November 2010. A total of 296 teachers returned completed questionnaires, yielding a response rate of 78.9%. The 12-month prevalence of LBP was 68.8%, which reporting with moderate disability. The results of multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that females [odds ratio (OR): 1.85, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.51-2.00] were positively correlated to LBP. Awkward arm posture (OR: 1.81, 95% CI: 1.24-2.62) and awkward body posture (OR: 1.23, 95% CI: 0.87-1.49) were significantly associated with LBP. Psychosocial job demands and job dissatisfaction were also significantly associated with LBP. Smoking cigarette was three times more likely to develop lower back pain when compared with non-smokers. The prevalence of LBP was high among high school teachers. A wide variety of LBP risk factors were identified in the current study.

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“…In Japan, one of care-giving works, care for children in nursery schools had been viewed as having associations with elevated prevalence of neck, shoulder, arm and low back disorders [8][9][10][11][12][13] . In 1990s, some studies done in western countries also indicated the risk of musculoskeletal disorders among nursery school (NS) teachers 14,15) . NS teachers perform many kinds of tasks including care for children, indoor play or group nurture, outdoor play or nurture, and tidying rooms.…”

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Associations of Length of Employment and Working Conditions with Neck, Shoulder and Arm Pain among Nursery Scool Teachers.

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A cross-sectional questionnaire study was carried out on nursery school (NS) teachers in public nursery schools in N city in Japan to determine the magnitude of associations of probable risk factors with neck, shoulder, and arm pain, adjusting for potential confounders in logistic regression models. Of 1438 subjects, responded to the questionnaire, 959 NS teachers in charge of a separate or mixed group of children were subjected to analyses. Prevalence of neck and/or shoulder pain was 33.6%-35.4% in NS teachers in charge of children aged 0, 0-1, 4, and 5 in contrast to 25.0-29.8% in those in charge of children aged 1,2, and 3. The prevalence of neck/shoulder pain tended to increase with the length of employment in all groups classified according to the age of children under care. In a logistic regression model that simultaneously adjusted demographic and personal variables, length of employment and care for children aged 0 in the workplace were found significantly associated with musculoskeletal pain. In further logistic models, pain in the neck/shoulders and arms had associations with some specific variables: care for children aged 0, holding/lifting a child/ material, overwork, and poorly supported job situations. The odds ratios for those variables varied from 1.37 to 2.41. This results suggest that pain in the neck/shoulders and arms is induced by a wide variety of risk factors in NS teachers that include high physical workload, long working hours, job demand-support imbalance, and cumulative influence of workloads.

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Work activities and musculoskeletal complaints among preschool workers

Cited by 63 publications

References 6 publications

Hard work at home: musculoskeletal pain among female homemakers

Hard work at home: musculoskeletal pain among female homemakers

Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Associated Risk Factors Among High School Teachers in Kerman, Iran

Associations of Length of Employment and Working Conditions with Neck, Shoulder and Arm Pain among Nursery Scool Teachers.

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