The effects of exercise reminder software program on office workers' perceived pain level, work performance and quality of life.
In direct proportion to current technological developments, both the computer usage in the workplaces is increased and requirement of leaving the desk for an office worker in order to photocopy a document, send or receive an e-mail is decreased. Therefore, office workers stay in the same postures ac...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 41; pp. 5692 - 5696 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2012 Supplement
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104522503&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104522503 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10519815 3RC jtl: Work issn: 10519815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2012 Supplement vid: 41 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 104522503 71928137 10.3233/wor-2012-0922-5692 104522503 ppf: 5692 ppct: 4 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: The effects of exercise reminder software program on office workers' perceived pain level, work performance and quality of life. aug: au: Soares, Marcelo M. Jacobs, Karen Irmak, A. Bum$\dot{{\rm i}}$n, G. Irmak, R. affil: Hacettepe University, Institute of Health Sciences, Program of Ergotherapy, Turkey sug: subj: Reminder Systems Exercise Muscular Diseases Symptoms Pain Psychosocial Factors Job Performance Evaluation Quality of Life Evaluation Human Turkiye Male Female Young Adult Adult Middle Age Visual Analog Scaling Computer Environment Questionnaires Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) Mann-Whitney U Test Descriptive Statistics Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: In direct proportion to current technological developments, both the computer usage in the workplaces is increased and requirement of leaving the desk for an office worker in order to photocopy a document, send or receive an e-mail is decreased. Therefore, office workers stay in the same postures accompanied by long periods of keyboard usage. In recent years, with intent to reduce the incidence of work related musculoskeletal disorders several exercise reminder software programs have been developed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the exercise reminder software program on office workers' perceived pain level, work performance and quality of life. 39 healthy office workers accepted to attend the study. Participants were randomly split in to two groups, control group (n = 19) and intervention group (n = 20). Visual Analogue Scale to evaluate the perceived pain was administered all of the participants in the beginning and at the end of the study. The intervention group used the program for 10 weeks. Findings showed that the control group VAS scores remained the same, but the intervention group VAS scores decreased in a statistically significant way (p <> pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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