| dc.description.abstract | Background and Objective:
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) is an occupational health pro
blem that still needs to be analyzed in order
to find out the prevention. The agroindustry workers are one gr
oup of workers at risk of experiencing MSDs. The aims of this s
tudy was
to investigate the MSDs prevalence in rice mill operators and t
heir related factors.
Materials and Methods:
A cross-sectional study has
been conducted on 35 rice mill operators from 16 rice mill units in Penajam District of Indonesia. The MSDs severity was plott
ed by Nordic
Body Map, while physical workload, work posture, risk of manual
handling, holding and carrying as wells as health status of th
e rice mill
operators were measured by the percentage of cardiovascular load, Ovako working posture assessment system, key indicator method
for lifting and body mass index, respectively. Product moment Pearson and Rank Spearman were applied to identify the correlati
on
between MSDs prevalence and parameters observed.
Results:
The MSDs prevalence was found on all of the rice mill operator
s, which
categorized as low, moderate and high level of 17.1, 62.9 and
20.0%, respectively. It correlated significantly with workload (p = 0.009,
r = 0.287), age (p = 0.026, r = 0.377), working period (p =
0.017, r = 0.401), working hours (p = 0.008, r = 0.441), work
posture (p = 0.000,
r = 0.671) and manual handling risk (p = 0.000, r = 0.689).
Conclusion:
The first four variables show low association (minor factors)
with
MSDs prevalence, while the latter two variables (work posture and manual handling risk) show strong association (major factors). | en_US |
