Do We Practice What We Know? A Study Comparing Ergonomic Practices
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: The increasing use, necessity and negligence to handle computers in every specialty of life have raised important health concerns. In the absence of any formal ergonomic education in the country the study was aimed to compare the awareness and practices of ergonomics between groups of individuals with and without any ergonomic awareness. Methods: A questionnaire based cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the awareness and practices of ergonomic principles. Group I comprised of professionals from different occupations like doctors, Information technology professionals (IT), bankers, marketing individuals and teachers with some form of ergonomic education. Group II comprised of computer science students who had no such education. Responses were compared by chi square test with p <0.05 significance. Results: Group I had 318 responses and group II had 198. Participants from group I had significantly more information and better practices than those in group II regarding certain ergonomic standards, height of chair p=0.001, seat pan p=0.002, computer screen filter p<0.001, arm rest p=0.0002, position of wrist p=0.0171, elbow position p=0 and back rest p=0.0016).Safer practices were far less than the level of information in either group showing a wide gap between theory and practices. Conclusion: Ergonomic practices were better in those who had some awareness suggesting the need of an organized ergonomic design for all computer users complemented with structured awareness sessions and a strategy to remove the gap between theory and practices.
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Khan R,Rehman R, Surti A, Khan H, Katpar SJ
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