The incidence of work-related illness in the UK health and social work sector: The Health and Occupation Reporting network 2002–2003

Walsh, Luke; Turner, Susan; Lines, Sarah; Hussey, Louise; Chen, Yiqun; Agius, Raymond

doi:10.1093/occmed/kqi127

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“…The prevalence of WMSDs linearly correlates with age and length of service[ 5 ]. In many industrialized countries, WMSDs has become the second highest occupational disease after occupational mental diseases[ 6 , 7 ]. Because of the different work characteristics, conditions and working strength, multiple parts of WMSDs are also different[ 3 , 4 , 8 – 10 ].…”

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Assessing the effects of an educational program for the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among school teachers

Shuai

Yue

et al. 2014

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundMusculoskeletal disorders represent one of the most common and most costly occupational health problems in both developed and developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of occupational health education and ergonomic training on awareness, attitude and behavior of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among teachers.MethodsA self-controlled longitudinal study with pre/post design was used to evaluate the effects of intervention among school teachers from the 21st of June, 2010 to the 21st of August, 2011. Choosing a cluster random sampling method, 350 (70.0% response rate (350/500)) teachers from four schools were assigned to receive eight weeks of intervention (participatory ergonomic training and occupational health education). Evaluations focused on teachers who participated in both pre- and post-questionnaires. Two post-tests were then administered to the participants to identify changes at six and 12 months after intervention.ResultsThe follow-up rate was 93.7% (328/350) at six months after intervention, and 90.9% (319/350) at 12 months after intervention. After the intervention, the awareness rate, attitude and health behavior improved. The self-reported prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders for neck, shoulder, upper and lower back pain, or discomfort were lower than before intervention (P < 0.05).ConclusionInterventions based on occupational health education lectures, on-site ergonomics training, publicity brochures and posters showed a positive effect on prevention and control of the occurrence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in teachers. Improvement in awareness, behavior and attitude changes, and prevalence were found at both six and 12 months post-intervention, confirming that the effectiveness of the program can be sustained.

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Assessing the effects of an educational program for the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among school teachers

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Yue

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“…The literature search in Medline resulted in 184 articles and screening of the abstracts reduced this number to 44 relevant articles. We deduced from the literature two types of appropriate output of registries of occupational diseases within the scope of national preventive policy [ 13 , 15 , 29 - 33 ], namely alert information and monitor information. We called the ability of a registry to generate these types of information the alert function and the monitor function, respectively.…”

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Characteristics of national registries for occupational diseases: international development and validation of an audit tool (ODIT)

Spreeuwers

Boer

Verbeek

et al. 2009

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background-: The aim of the study was to develop quality indicators that can be used for quality assessment of registries of occupational diseases in relation to preventive policy on a national level. The research questions were: 1. Which indicators determine the quality of national registries of occupational diseases with respect to their ability to provide appropriate information for preventive policy? 2. What are the criteria that can distinguish low quality from high quality?

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“…A strength of the study is that we knew both the denominator and the distribution over economic sectors in the source population of the sentinel group. The choice of denominator determines to a considerable extent the outcome of calculations of incidences [Walsh et al, 2005]. Information from surveys of the national workforce is often used as the denominator in the calculation of incidences for occupational diseases [McDonald, 2002].…”

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Sentinel surveillance of occupational diseases: A quality improvement project

Spreeuwers

Boer

Verbeek

et al. 2008

American J Industrial Med

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The incidence of work-related illness in the UK health and social work sector: The Health and Occupation Reporting network 2002–2003

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Assessing the effects of an educational program for the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among school teachers

Assessing the effects of an educational program for the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among school teachers

Characteristics of national registries for occupational diseases: international development and validation of an audit tool (ODIT)

Sentinel surveillance of occupational diseases: A quality improvement project

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