Evaluation of the Relationship Between Neck Pain and Ergonomic Factors in Office Workers

Neck Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of the Relationship Between Neck Pain and Ergonomic Factors in Office Workers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04821024
• Other study ID #: 2021/18
• Status: Completed
• Start date: February 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: April 20, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: May 2021
• Source: Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The current study aimed to explore the associations between disability levels and occupational risk factors in computer-using office workers with neck pain.

Description:

This is a cross-sectional study. All participants will provide informed consent before participating in the study. The study will be conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration criteria. Data will be collected using questionnaires, which include information on demographic, clinical, and occupational ergonomic conditions.

Patients will be divided into 2 groups as mild-moderate and severe disabled according to their neck disability index values and will be analyzed statistically.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1000
• Est. completion date: April 20, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: April 20, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged between 18 and 55,

• working on computer,

• having neck pain at least three months.

Exclusion Criteria:

• reporting pregnancy,

• having a history of accidents,

• trauma or surgery in the neck region,

• congenital anomaly of the spine,

• rheumatologic disease,

• osteoporosis,

• spondylosis,

• spondylolisthesis,

• infection of the spine

• cervical disc herniation,

• tumor.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disability Physical
• Ergonomic Factors
• Neck Pain

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• A self-administered questionnaire
A self-administered questionnaire will be used to screen Neck disability index, demographic information and ergonomic risk factors.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Research and Training Hospital	Istanbul	Bahçelievler

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (5)

Aas RW, Tuntland H, Holte KA, Røe C, Lund T, Marklund S, Moller A. Workplace interventions for neck pain in workers. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Apr 13;(4):CD008160. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008160.pub2. Review. — View Citation

Côté P, van der Velde G, Cassidy JD, Carroll LJ, Hogg-Johnson S, Holm LW, Carragee EJ, Haldeman S, Nordin M, Hurwitz EL, Guzman J, Peloso PM; Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders. The burden and determinants of neck pain in workers: results of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2008 Feb 15;33(4 Suppl):S60-74. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181643ee4. Review. — View Citation

Matsudaira K, Kawaguchi M, Isomura T, Inuzuka K, Koga T, Miyoshi K, Konishi H. Assessment of psychosocial risk factors for the development of non-specific chronic disabling low back pain in Japanese workers-findings from the Japan Epidemiological Research of Occupation-related Back Pain (JOB) study. Ind Health. 2015;53(4):368-77. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2014-0260. Epub 2015 Jun 6. — View Citation

McLean SM, May S, Klaber-Moffett J, Sharp DM, Gardiner E. Risk factors for the onset of non-specific neck pain: a systematic review. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010 Jul;64(7):565-72. doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.090720. Epub 2010 May 12. Review. — View Citation

Vassilaki M, Hurwitz EL. Insights in public health: perspectives on pain in the low back and neck: global burden, epidemiology, and management. Hawaii J Med Public Health. 2014 Apr;73(4):122-6. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	neck disability index	The Neck Disability Index (NDI) is a self-report questionnaire used to determine how neck pain affects a patient's daily life and to assess the self-rated disability of patients with neck pain	1 interview day
Primary	Rapid Office Strain Assessment	Rapid Office Strain Assessment is a method that determined the potential ergonomic risk factors computer position, computer screen position, head, and back position, and mouse position.	1 interview day