Complicações musculoesqueléticas que afetam trabalhadores de escritórios: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

Office workers have musculoskeletal complications due to physical and mental stress, as a result of repetitive activities, prolonged sitting and/or lack of work practices, causing complaints of pain and discomfort. Therefore, it is interesting to analyze the main musculoskeletal complications that affect office workers. This is a quantitative cross-sectional observational research, approved by the CEP (opinion no 7,153,237), seeking significant data and objective explanations for the problem, with analysis of data obtained through the sociodemographic questionnaire and the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, in which they have respectively questions about age, sex, comorbidities, physical activities and leisure, computer use and time spent sitting at work, and also about possible problems or symptoms that affected performance in the workplace. work or that prevented them from carrying out their tasks, Numbers was used to tabulate the data and, subsequently, analyzed in this software with the help of Bioestat, version 5.0. It is therefore inferred that 80% of office workers presented some musculoskeletal complications, requiring encouragement for prevention and health promotion to improve quality of life and the work environment.