Knowledge and Usage of Body Mechanics Among Class Iv Workers

Assess Knowledge and Use of Body Mechanics Practices and its Association with Musculoskeletal Problems among Hospital Attendants in Selected Wards of PGIMER, Chandigarh

“…Similarly in Rawat A. et al (2017) study, half of them (53%) belongs to age group 21-30 yrs with 79% of them were males and majority of them (74%) had work experience of 7yrs [7] while D'souza P. et al(2020) study, nearly half of them are between age group of 36-45 yrs with 74% of them were females and 41% had work experience of 6-10 yrs. [4] The present study results showed that Based on the knowledge score, 78.7% of the study subjects had poor knowledge & the rest 21.5% had good knowledge. Similar results were shown in study conducted by D'souza P. et al in 2020 (N=100) in which 64% had poor knowledge and only 2% of them had good knowledge.…”

“…Similarly in study conducted by Rawat A., Negi A., Rana M. et al (2017) on ward attendants and another study conducted by D'Souza p., et al (2020) shows no significant association between selected demographic variables and knowledge of body mechanics and body mechanics practices. [4,5] In contrast to this study conducted by Jayakrishan K. (2016) conducted a descriptive study on Knowledge and practice among staff nurses regarding body mechanics at Odisha revealed that there was significant association between selected demographic variables & knowledge score as well as significant association between selected demographic variables & body mechanics practices. [8] Some of the limitations of the study were that the present study was conducted only in selected wards of PGIMER Chandigarh and there was short duration of data collection period.…”

“…Regarding body mechanics practices, the subjects performance in general activities was average (52.9%), for moving lifting and transferring heavy equipments was average (23.0%), for transferring patients from stretcher to bed and vice versa was also average (31.0%) and for transferring patient from wheelchair to bed and vice versa was poor(17.8%).In a similar study by D'souza P. et al in 2020, the 74% of class IV workers poorly used body mechanics at workplace while rest 26% were using proper techniques. [4] On contrary in a descriptive study conducted by Jayakrishan K. in 2016 (N=100) on Knowledge and practice among staff nurses regarding body mechanics at Odisha revealed that 11% had excellent, 71% had moderate and 18% had mild extent of use of body mechanics practices. [8] Another study was conducted by Karahan A, Bayraktar N, et al in 2004 in department of nursing among Turkish hospital workers including nurses experiencing low back pain because of heavy work activities like bending, twisting and frequent heavy lifting.…”

“…Similar results were shown in study conducted by D'souza P. et al in 2020 (N=100) in which 64% had poor knowledge and only 2% of them had good knowledge. [4] In another similar study conducted by Afzal M, Gilani SA, Waqas A et al in 2017 (N=216) at Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore revealed that 65% participants were having good knowledge and 15% were having no knowledge. [6] In contrast to this, in a study conducted by Vidya VP, Freeda D, Dennis S, et al in 2014 (N=100) on knowledge and practices of body mechanics among staff nurses at Mangalore concluded that 50% subjects had good knowledge, 40% had very good knowledge and 10% had average knowledge.…”

“…The result of study depicted that 64% of participants had poor knowledge, 34% had average knowledge and only 2% had good knowledge of body mechanics and there was a weak positive correlation between knowledge and uses of body mechanics. [4] Another study by Rawat A., Negi A., Rana M. et al (2017) on knowledge assessment on use of body mechanics and safety measures among ward attendants in selected hospitals, Dehradun, Uttarakhand revealed that majority of participants have average knowledge of body mechanics. Among all participants 79% was not suffering from back pain and rest 21% had back pain mainly due to the heavy lifting.…”