Effectiveness of a comprehensive health promotion intervention for managing risk factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders in Iranian housewives: A four-arm randomized controlled trial

IF 3.1 2区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI:10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104489

Samaneh Norouzi , Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian , Rosanna Cousins , Hamidreza Mokarami

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Abstract

Full-time housework includes long hours of musculoskeletal effort that can lead to intense pain, poor workability, stress and reduced quality of life. A comprehensive intervention that included biomechanical and psychosocial educational training was designed and evaluated using a four-arm randomized control trial. A total of 160 housewives recruited from a musculoskeletal disorders clinic were randomly assigned to one of four intervention groups: control, biomechanical, psychosocial and comprehensive (biomechanical and psychosocial). Measures were collected before the seven weekly training sessions, immediately after, and three months and six months later. There were significant sustained improvements compared to baseline in the biomechanical and the psychosocial groups for six risk factors, and all seven risk factors in the comprehensive group providing evidence of independent contributions from biomechanical and psychosocial training approaches. This supported the overarching hypothesis that a comprehensive educational intervention can effectively reduce risk factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders in full-time housewives.

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在伊朗家庭主妇中管理与肌肉骨骼疾病相关的危险因素的综合健康促进干预的有效性：一项四组随机对照试验

全职家务包括长时间的肌肉骨骼劳动，这可能导致剧烈疼痛、工作能力差、压力和生活质量下降。设计了包括生物力学和社会心理教育训练在内的综合干预措施，并采用四组随机对照试验进行评估。从一家肌肉骨骼疾病诊所招募的160名家庭主妇被随机分配到四个干预组：对照组、生物力学组、社会心理组和综合组（生物力学组和社会心理组）。在每周七次训练前、训练后、三个月和六个月后收集测量数据。与基线相比，生物力学组和社会心理组的六个风险因素有显著的持续改善，综合组的所有七个风险因素都提供了生物力学和社会心理训练方法的独立贡献的证据。这支持了一个总体假设，即全面的教育干预可以有效地减少与全职家庭主妇肌肉骨骼疾病相关的风险因素。

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Applied Ergonomics 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

7.50

自引率

9.40%

发文量

248

审稿时长

53 days

期刊介绍： Applied Ergonomics is aimed at ergonomists and all those interested in applying ergonomics/human factors in the design, planning and management of technical and social systems at work or leisure. Readership is truly international with subscribers in over 50 countries. Professionals for whom Applied Ergonomics is of interest include: ergonomists, designers, industrial engineers, health and safety specialists, systems engineers, design engineers, organizational psychologists, occupational health specialists and human-computer interaction specialists.