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KMID : 1142420190170020253
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PNF and Movement
2019 Volume.17 No. 2 p.253 ~ p.261
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A Prospective Investigation into the Effects of Workplace Stress and Working Postures on Work-related Neck Pain in Office Workers
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Jun Deok-Hoon
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the causal relationship between workplace stress and working posture and the development of work-related neck pain in office workers.
Methods: The study participants included 62 office workers who had not experienced neck pain in the previous 12 months. A battery of measures to evaluate potential workplace risk factors in an office setting were conducted at baseline, and the 12-month incidence of work-related neck pain was reported via monthly questionnaires. Survival analysis was used to evaluate the longitudinal relationship between the workplace risk factors and the development of work-related neck pain.
Results: The incidence of work-related neck pain was 1.91 (95% CI: 1.06?3.45) per 100 person months. The incidence of neck pain was predicted to be less likely to happen when workers had a more upright thorax posture during computer work (hazard ratio, 0.94; 95% CI: 0.89?0.99). However, stress may deteriorate the preventative effects of other risk factors on neck pain and showed a positive relationship with episodes of neck pain (hazard ratio, 1.37; 95% CI: 1.03?1.84).
Conclusion: Understanding the psychophysiological effects of neck pain may explain the development of neck pain in office workers. Our interest in prevention plans and treatments should therefore involve a multifactorial pathology of neck pain in the workplace.
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KEYWORD
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Neck pain, Risk factors, Stress, Working posture
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