Clinical trial NCT05522933: Development and Evaluation of an Online Multidimensional Musculoskeletal Health Programme
Official title: Development and Evaluation of an Online Multidimensional Musculoskeletal Health Promotion Program for Low-skilled Workers in the Low-Income Community in Covid-19 Pandemic Situation - a Feasibility Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Occupational Health
Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-08-31
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Globally, work-related musculoskeletal symptoms (WRMSs) have become one of the major public health issues, with musculoskeletal problems contributing to the largest proportion of lost work productivity. Literature has reported that grassroots working-class workers (also known as low-skilled workers) are the most vulnerable group to WRMSs as their work mostly exposes them to the identified risk factors. However, not many intervention studies have been conducted for low-skilled workers to prevent WRMSs.

Based on the concept of the multidimensional approach from the literature, and the project team's previous evidence-based research results, this project will modify the project team's face-to-face evidence-based musculoskeletal health promotion program to an online mode with 4 weekly 45-minute workshops for low-skilled workers in the community under the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Thus, the project has the following specific objectives:

(i) To determine the feasibility of conducting the proposed online program (ii) To examine the acceptability and satisfaction of the online program from the workers' perspectives (iii) To evaluate the potential effects of the online program on the primary outcomes: compliance with exercise regimes, improvement of musculoskeletal literacy, and reduction of the number of body parts with WRMSs (iv) To evaluate the potential effects of the online program on the secondary outcomes: reduction of adverse workstyle, improvement of exercise self-efficacy, mental health, body mass index, hip-waist ratio, and blood pressure measurements


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* low-skilled workers aged ≥ 18
* working full-time or part-time,
* with at least one body part that had been affected by WRMSs for at least one month.

Exclusion Criteria:

* engagement in WRMS prevention programs in the workplace at the time of the study,
* undergoing medical treatment

Primary outcomes:
measure: Compliance with exercise regimes
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Musculoskeletal literacy
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Incidence of body parts with work-related musculoskeletal systems (WRMSs)
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Adverse workstyle
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Self-efficacy
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Mental health
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Body mass index
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Hip-waist ratio
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Blood pressure
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
measure: Social support and exercise
timeFrame: Change from the measurement at baseline (T0) to one week after intervention (T1)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kowloon
country: Hong Kong
facility: Residents Mutual Help Centre
Study officials:
affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
name: Kin Cheung
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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