Perceived contra observed physical work load in Swedish dentists.
In an earlier questionnaire study, dentists reported high experienced physical work load in their profession, but low to moderate complaints from their musculoskeletal system. The correlation between reported physical work load and pain from the musculoskeletal system was weak. This discrepancy coul...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 253 - 263 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2005
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106387635&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106387635 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10519815 3RC jtl: Work issn: 10519815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2005 vid: 25 iid: 3 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 106387635 106387635 2009074196 10.3233/wor-2005-00461 NLM16179774 106387635 ppf: 253 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Perceived contra observed physical work load in Swedish dentists. aug: au: Rolander B Karsznia A Jonker D Öberg T Bellner A affil: Occupational Safety and Health Centre, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden; Bo.Rolander@lj.se sug: subj: Cumulative Trauma Disorders Epidemiology Dentists Ergonomics Workload Confidence Intervals Data Analysis Software Data Analysis, Statistical Descriptive Statistics Female Male Observational Methods P-Value Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Posture Questionnaires Scales Self Report Sweden T-Tests Videorecording Visual Analog Scaling Human Female Male ab: In an earlier questionnaire study, dentists reported high experienced physical work load in their profession, but low to moderate complaints from their musculoskeletal system. The correlation between reported physical work load and pain from the musculoskeletal system was weak. This discrepancy could not be satisfactorily explained. Therefore, a second study was undertaken, in which the same 27 dentists who reported musculoskeletal problems were video recorded during one hour of clinical work, and the records were later analyzed using PEO (Portable Ergonomic Observation). PEO is a frequency analysis method which allows observation of work in real time using a portable computer or video recordings. PEO can be adjusted for registration of single or multiple work operations. Output data are presented as frequency, duration, and sequence of the various work operations. The aim of the present study was to investigate if there was a relation between observed work load recorded with PEO, and subjectively estimated work load and musculoskeletal complaints recorded with a questionnaire based on Visual Analogue Scales. Sitting and standing postures, and head, trunk and arm movements were analyzed. The PEO observations showed that dentists generally perform their clinical work in a sitting position, with the head bent forward almost half of the time. Only weak to moderate correlations (r =0.0-0.6) were found between observed physical work load and subjective estimations of experienced physical work load and musculoskeletal complaints. These findings support the results in our previous study, but they do not explain the large difference between the observed low work load and the subjectively experienced high work load. The study will be followed up by EMG measurements and free interviews, where both muscular load and psychosocial factors will be evaluated. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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