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Revista de la Asociación Española de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo

On-line version ISSN 3020-1160Print version ISSN 1132-6255

Abstract

DIANA DOMINGUEZ, Ismael Silvino; VILLAESCUSA GARCIA, Cristina; CACERES POLO, Fermín  and  HERNANDEZ SAIZ, María Dolores. Study of musculoskeletal injuries in workers with risks derived from exposure to data display screens in the province of Albacete. Rev Asoc Esp Espec Med Trab [online]. 2019, vol.28, n.1, pp.28-37.  Epub Dec 28, 2020. ISSN 3020-1160.

Objective:

to establish a working system for the detection and codification of musculoskeletal injuries that affect Data Display Screen users.

Material and Methods:

during the year 2017, a cross-sectional observational study was conducted on 427 Data Display Screen workers. The Data Display Screen protocol of the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare was used, transferring the obtained data to the statistical program SPSS for processing through a Chi-squared.

Results:

statistically significant relationship among musculoskeletal injuries and four variables: 1) Hours per day with exposure to Data Display Screen. 2) Manual laterality. 3) Age. 4) Training in Occupational Risk Prevention.

Conclusions:

through the systematization and study of a series of variables, we can improve the orientation of healthy habits (fundamentally postural) of workers.

Keywords : musculoskeletal injury; data visualization; occupational risks; workers.

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