Ergonomic Considerations on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Posture in Software Developers.

Riphah International University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Disorders

Treatments

Other: ergonomic principls

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05173766

REC/Lhr/20/1041/Hafiz Muhammad

Details and patient eligibility

About

The human and computer interface is becoming increasingly intuitive, but for the inexperienced user still poses formidable problems. Musculoskeletal symptoms of VDU users are believed to have a multifactorial aetiology. Software developers don't have knowledge of ergonomic principles. Faulty postures had an effect on posture.

Full description

Data will be collected from software developer companies in Lahore at questionnaire include demographic data and data collection tools. The software developer will be guided about basic ergonomic principles and data will be collected at the start of the study and in 2 stages with a 2-week interval. A quasi-experiment study will be used. The sample size will be323 (margin of error 5%, confidence level 95%, population size 2000, and dist. 50%) by Rao software. A convenient sampling technique will be used. Data will be analyzed using SPSS 21 by comparing mean and correlating variables

Enrollment

323 patients

Sex

All

Ages

25 to 40 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Software engineers who have experience of more than 2 years, in the same company.
Software engineers with the age less than 40 years and both gender.

Exclusion criteria

Software engineers who had a past history of spine surgery or diseases in the Spine like disc prolapse, discitis, arthritis etc.
Orthopedically physically challenged
Pregnant women.