Evaluation of measures to reduce physical load and strain as well as to promote the health of employees in the care sector
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Cumulative physical load on back, shoulders and knee
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031573
- Lead Sponsor
- Techniker Krankenkasse
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 78
Inclusion Criteria
Works in direct nursing care in Amarita Haus Hamburg Mitte.
- 20 weekly working hours or more.
- Minimal expected employment in the company of 3 month after inclusion.
- Sufficient language skills (german or english) to understand the study information, to give informed consent to participation and to understand the inverview questions.
- No concommitent organisational circumstances (e.g. only night shift) that inhibit participation in the interventions or the study examinations.
Exclusion Criteria
Nursing Home Manager,
Social assistants
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Intervention 1: Cumulative physical load of the back, shoulders and knees during the performance of typical measures of patient transfer at t0, t1 and t2.<br>Intervention 2: Functional mobility (Functional Movement Screen™, FMS) at t0, t1 and t2.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain (Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire),<br>Work ability (Work Ability Index, WAI),<br>Finger-floor distance,<br>Muscle strength and core stability (McGill Test),<br>Muscle mass (bioelectric impendance analysis, BIA)<br>Feedback questionaire after completion of the training (only intervention groups)