Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to assess Knowledge Attitude and Awareness on Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Construction Workers

Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to assess Knowledge, Attitude, and Awareness of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Construction Workers

Aim: To develop and validate a questionnaire to assess knowledge, attitude and awareness on work related musculoskeletal disorders in construction workers .

Objective: To determine the knowledge, attitude and awareness on work related musculoskeletal disorders  among construction workers using a noval questionnaire

Research Question : What is extent of Knowledge, Attitude, and Awareness about Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among the construction workers?

Inclusion criteria: Construction workers (mason, carpenter, plumber, painter) working at the construction site in Belagavi city

Construction workers of age group 19-55 years .

Construction  workers having work experience of more than year

Construction workers working for 7-8 hours a day

Exclusion criteria :   Construction workers unwilling to participate.

Subcontractor and supplier employees 

Procedure: The study will be done in two stages:

Stage 1: Development of Questionnaire

The questionnaire will contain 4 domains that are demographic data, knowledge, attitude and awareness

Items will be generated for the above mentioned domains

Questionnaire will be made and subjected to content validity

Stage 2 : Validation of questionnaire

Assessing the items adequate measures of the domain interest by evaluating each item for content relevance representatives and technical quality will be done

Critical review and all expert comments will be taken into consideration

A pilot study will be conducted for the validity of the questionnaire

Stage3: Survey  procedure

After obtaining Ethical Clearance from Institution ethical committee the study will be registered under CTRI prospectively.

Permission to conduct the study will be obtained from onsite construction supervisor and the subjects meeting the inclusion criteria will be provided with the informed consent

After explaining procedure those subjects consenting and willing to participate will be included into the study.

The self structured questionnaire will be administered by the investigator and their responses will be recorded.

The administration of questionnaire would last for 30minutes for each subject and the responses recorded will be subjected to statistical analysis