Clinical trial NCT05048446: Physical and Work Variables in Professional Musicians
Official title: Physical Activity, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Perception of Emotional Work Well-being and Quality of Life in Professional Musicians
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain
Lead sponsor: University of Valencia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-09-17
Enrollment: 156
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Professional musicians of orchestras and bands

Brief summary: In professional musicians there are characteristic diseases. In this area there is no preventive culture and many musicians end their professional careers due to ailments and pathologies that cause the abandonment of the profession or they learn to live and play with pain. It is a very demanding profession that requires many hours of training without respecting the necessary rest, which undoubtedly produces fatigue and muscle overload, neurological disorders, etc. Also, the demands to achieve perfection lead to serious work problems.

Given that it is a profession that suffers from pain and psychosomatic alterations and that is often accompanied by emotional alterations due to work demands, it is necessary to know this problem and to what extent it affects the musician to be able to act from different areas and improve his well-being.

The objective is to know specifically the characteristics of professional musicians, their impact variables, both musculoskeletal and emotional, variables related to the workplace and to evaluate their quality of life.

Detailed description: MATERIAL AND METHODS Subjects. Professional orchestral and band musicians between the ages of 18 and 65.

Study design. Descriptive study to be carried out at the University of Valencia. To do this, a survey will be carried out through an online platform. All participants will sign the informed consent and the study will be carried out in compliance with the data confidentiality guidelines. To start the study, the approval of the Ethics Committee of the University of Valencia will be necessary and it will be included in an international registry.

Evaluation. In the first place, the anthropometric data (age, sex, weight, height) and the characteristics of the sample will be taken through an interview designed for this study that will contain questions about the job and instruments they practice. Subsequently, the subjects will fill in the assessment instruments that include the physical activity they perform, the musculoskeletal alterations, workplace harassment, professional burnout, quality of life and anxiety and depression.

Statistic analysis. The variables will be coded and analyzed using the SPSS v.26 program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* active professional musicians

Exclusion Criteria:

* non-active or non-practicing professional musicians

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physical activity
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Musculoskeletal disorders
timeFrame: 1 day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Workplace Harassment
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Health
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Anxiety and depression
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Professional burnout
timeFrame: 1 day
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Valencia
country: Spain
facility: Gemma Espí López
city: Valencia
country: Spain
facility: Gemma Victoria Espí-López
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Valencia
name: Gemma V E Espí-López, Dr
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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