Impact in Life Quality of a Educational Program for Prevention of Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders in Workers

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Status: Completed

Conditions: Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders; Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: General education; Behavioral: educational program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00874718

2007755

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study consists of evaluating the efficacy of an Educational Program for prevention of occupational musculoskeletal problems in workers. It is a randomized clinical trial with parallel groups and blinded evaluator, with a control group not submitted to the educational program, but that received a program for general orientation in health. The primary outcome was the change of the quality of life measured by means of Medical Outcomes Study 36-Term Short Health Survey (SF-36), that it is a generic instrument of evaluation of the quality of life, translated and validated in Portuguese of Brazil.

Enrollment: 64 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All workers from a specific company, including administrative and production sections.

Exclusion criteria

• Workers absent from the workplace during all the study period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Action group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: educational program

Control group

Other group

Description:

Non-specific educational program for general health.

Treatment:

Behavioral: General education