Effectiveness of a Distance Eduaction Course for Prevention in RSI/WRMD

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Work-related Injury

Treatments: Other: Intervention; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03385954

160415

Details and patient eligibility

About

Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) or Work-Related Ostomuscular Disorders (WRMD) are musculoskeletal disorders. Nursing is one of the categories of workers most affected, due to the inherent functions they perform in their daily activities. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of a distance education program of prevention in RIS/WRMD on the quality of life of a nursing group.

Full description

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) or Work-Related Musculoskeletaldisorders (WRMD) are the names given to skeletal muscle disorders that mainly affect the upper limbs, the scapular region and the neck. One of the most affected categories is nursing workers who present health problems inherent to the function they perform in their daily activities. Due to this peculiarity, several studies are focused on the occupational risks of nursing workers in the hospital environment. However, It was not found in the literature studies that suggests strategies to prevent and improve the worker's quality of life. Distance education comes as a differential. It has power in interactive media and collaborative learning beyond self-learning and mass media. This research project proposes to carry out a randomized clinical trial where the intervention group will receive a Prevention Course in RSI/WRMD in the distance education modality and the control group will receive Educational Lectures on Prevention in RSI /WRMD, both groups will be composed by a nursing team from the Clinical Hospital of Porto Alegre.

Enrollment: 76 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nurse staff from HCPA
• Male and Female
• Individuals that agree to participate of the distance eduacational course
• Individuals that agree to participate in the research by signing the Term of Free and Clarified Consent

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals that do not complete the course
• Individuals that do not agree to participate in the research by signing the Term of Free and Clarified Consent
• Individuals with chronic musculoskeletal injury diagnosed.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

distance education curse with 8 hours to be accomplished in 2 weeks,

Treatment:

Other: Intervention

Control

Experimental group

Description:

Wiil receive a lecture of 30 minutes

Treatment:

Other: Control