The Effect of a Resistance Training Program in Healthcare Workers on Pain, Workability and Physical Function.

University of Valencia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain; Physical Function; Work Ability

Treatments: Other: Resistance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03501147

0000260894

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prevalence and consequences of musculoskeletal pain is considerable among healthcare workers, allegedly due to high physical work demands of healthcare work.

Performing physical exercise at the workplace together with colleagues may be more motivating for some employees and thus increase adherence. On the other hand, physical exercise performed during working hours at the workplace may be costly for the employers in terms of time spend. Thus, it seems relevant to perform a brief intervention. This study is intended to investigate the difference between the effect of workplace-based physical exercise (using elastic bands and body weight exercises) and a group control on musculoskeletal pain, physical exertion during work, physical function, need for recovery, self-rated use of analgesics, and work ability among healthcare workers.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthcare Workers at the Hospital
• Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to perform exercises

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

37 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

15 minutes of resistance training at the work place every day

Treatment:

Other: Resistance training

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual work