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Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists

BACKGROUND: Despite that physiotherapists (PTs) are supposed to have adequate knowledge of musculoskeletal disorders and the different prevention strategies, they are at high risk of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMDs). AIM: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, profi...

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Autores principales: Khairy, Walaa Ahmed, Bekhet, Amira Hassan, Sayed, Bothina, Elmetwally, Sara Elsayed, Elsayed, Ahmed Mohamed, Jahan, Alhadi M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Republic of Macedonia 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31210825
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.335
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author Khairy, Walaa Ahmed
Bekhet, Amira Hassan
Sayed, Bothina
Elmetwally, Sara Elsayed
Elsayed, Ahmed Mohamed
Jahan, Alhadi M.
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Bekhet, Amira Hassan
Sayed, Bothina
Elmetwally, Sara Elsayed
Elsayed, Ahmed Mohamed
Jahan, Alhadi M.
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description BACKGROUND: Despite that physiotherapists (PTs) are supposed to have adequate knowledge of musculoskeletal disorders and the different prevention strategies, they are at high risk of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMDs). AIM: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, profile, predictors, and response to WRMDs among Egyptian PTs. METHODS: A self-administrated questionnaire was distributed either manually or via e-mail to 564 PTs with at least two years of working experience. Questions elicited information about the personal and occupational history of the respondents in addition to the experience of WRMDs in the past two years. RESULTS: Four hundred and fourteen respondents (82.6%) reported WRMDs within the last two years, with the lower back as the most common area affected (68.8%). More than half the PTs (54.8%) who sustained a WRMD reported that their injury took place in a private setting. Significant predictors for WRMDs were age (AOR = 0.78; 95% CI = 0.66, 0.91) and number of years of experience in physiotherapy practice (AOR = 1.26; 95% CI = 1.07, 1.49). In response to the injury, about 73.9% of the respondents stated that they did not officially report their injury and 55.8% of them reported losing a half day or more from their work. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of WRMDs among Egyptian physiotherapists is high. Despite socioeconomic and cultural differences between Egypt and other countries, our study findings were consistent with the published reports. Further studies are needed to explore the cultural and psychosocial risk factors of WRMDs.
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spelling pubmed-65602912019-06-17 Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists Khairy, Walaa Ahmed Bekhet, Amira Hassan Sayed, Bothina Elmetwally, Sara Elsayed Elsayed, Ahmed Mohamed Jahan, Alhadi M. Open Access Maced J Med Sci Public Health BACKGROUND: Despite that physiotherapists (PTs) are supposed to have adequate knowledge of musculoskeletal disorders and the different prevention strategies, they are at high risk of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMDs). AIM: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, profile, predictors, and response to WRMDs among Egyptian PTs. METHODS: A self-administrated questionnaire was distributed either manually or via e-mail to 564 PTs with at least two years of working experience. Questions elicited information about the personal and occupational history of the respondents in addition to the experience of WRMDs in the past two years. RESULTS: Four hundred and fourteen respondents (82.6%) reported WRMDs within the last two years, with the lower back as the most common area affected (68.8%). More than half the PTs (54.8%) who sustained a WRMD reported that their injury took place in a private setting. Significant predictors for WRMDs were age (AOR = 0.78; 95% CI = 0.66, 0.91) and number of years of experience in physiotherapy practice (AOR = 1.26; 95% CI = 1.07, 1.49). In response to the injury, about 73.9% of the respondents stated that they did not officially report their injury and 55.8% of them reported losing a half day or more from their work. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of WRMDs among Egyptian physiotherapists is high. Despite socioeconomic and cultural differences between Egypt and other countries, our study findings were consistent with the published reports. Further studies are needed to explore the cultural and psychosocial risk factors of WRMDs. Republic of Macedonia 2019-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6560291/ /pubmed/31210825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.335 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Walaa Ahmed Khairy, Amira Hassan Bekhet, Bothina Sayed, Sara Elsayed Elmetwally, Ahmed Mohamed Elsayed, Alhadi M. Jahan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC BY-NC/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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Khairy, Walaa Ahmed
Bekhet, Amira Hassan
Sayed, Bothina
Elmetwally, Sara Elsayed
Elsayed, Ahmed Mohamed
Jahan, Alhadi M.
Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists
title Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists
title_full Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists
title_fullStr Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists
title_short Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists
title_sort prevalence, profile, and response to work-related musculoskeletal disorders among egyptian physiotherapists
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31210825
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.335
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