Counseling to change the lifestyle of sedentary workers on musculoskeletal pain: systematic review

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Musculoskeletal pain (MSP) in sedentary workers is a cause of absenteeism, high health costs and is relate to their lifestyle and work. Systematic reviews of interventions on the condition of MSP in this population are based on work equipment and do not present consensus on the type of intervention and its effectiveness. Therefore, the objective was to analyze the evidence of intervention studies that included education strategies to change the lifestyle of sedentary workers on the reduction of MSP. CONTENTS: This systematic review follows the recommendations of PRISMA 2020. Searches were conducted until April 2021 in the PubMed, BIREME and Scielo databases, in order to identify randomized or non-randomized clinical trials published between January 1999 and April 2021. Indexed search descriptors were used and eligibility criteria were defined according to the PICOS strategy. The risk of bias was assessed using the PEDro scale. Eight randomized clinical trials published between 2004 and 2020, conducted in Europe, Asia, the United States and Australia involving 1,871 people (35 to 52 years old) were included. Interventions ranged from two weeks to 12 months. Five studies showed a higher number of women. In addition to lifestyle counseling, three studies addressed work characteristics (time in sitting posture, body posture) and three others investigated issues related to pain (symptoms, neck/shoulder anatomy Counseling to change the lifestyle of sedentary workers on musculoskeletal pain: systematic reviewAconselhamento para mudança do estilo de vida de trabalhadores sedentários sobre a dor musculoesquelética: revisão sistemática