Reproducibility of a task description questionnaire for working pregnant women.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility of a Task Description Questionnaire that was designed to investigate exposures to, and influential factors for, problematic tasks experienced by working pregnant women. The questionnaire comprised questions concerning 22 task components...
| Published in: | Work Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 389 - 398 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106335799&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106335799 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10519815 3RC jtl: Work issn: 10519815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2006 vid: 26 iid: 4 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 106335799 106335799 2009258513 10.3233/wor-2006-00534 NLM16788258 106335799 ppf: 389 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Reproducibility of a task description questionnaire for working pregnant women. aug: au: Cheng PL Dumas GA Smith JT Leger A Plamondon A McGrath MJ Tranmer JE affil: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada sug: subj: Task Performance and Analysis Evaluation Female Employees In Pregnancy Adult Data Analysis Software Data Analysis, Statistical Descriptive Statistics Ergonomics Female Interviews kappa Statistic Ontario P-Value Paired T-Tests Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Posture Pregnancy Reproducibility of Results Research Instruments Self Report Test-Retest Reliability Funding Source Human Adult: 19-44 years Female ab: The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility of a Task Description Questionnaire that was designed to investigate exposures to, and influential factors for, problematic tasks experienced by working pregnant women. The questionnaire comprised questions concerning 22 task components (covering working posture, manual material handling, work pace, prolonged postures and others), eight influential factors contributing to problematic tasks, discomfort (measured using a body map) and level of effort to perform the tasks. Reproducibility of the questionnaire was assessed by interviewing participants on two occasions one week apart for interviews at both 20 and 34 weeks of pregnancy. Eleven and 13 problematic tasks were reported by 21 working pregnant women at 20 and 34 weeks of pregnancy, respectively. These tasks were surveyed using the Task Description Questionnaire. Kappa statistics and correlation coefficients (supplemented by paired t-tests) were used to examine the reproducibility of responses to the questionnaire. The results showed that most of the variables were measured with very good or satisfactory reproducibility. The reproducibility of exposure to work posture was higher than that of exposure to manual material handling. There was no significant difference between test and retest means for the discomfort scores measured on the body map, except for the maximum discomfort score for the whole body in the 34 weeks survey. The study suggests that the questionnaire can be reliably used in the study of problematic tasks experienced by pregnant women. But an initial preview of the questions by the subjects and explanation of the questions given to the subjects by the interviewer may help to produce more reliable results. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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