Implementation of Physical Exercise at the Workplace (IRMA08) - Healthcare Workers

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Interventions: Behavioral: Home physical exercise; Behavioral: Workplace physical exercise

• Registration Number: NCT01921764
• Lead Sponsor: National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark

Brief Summary

The prevalence and consequences of musculoskeletal pain is considerable among healthcare workers, allegedly due to high physical work demands of healthcare work. Previous studies have shown promising results of physical exercise for relieving pain among different occupational groups, but the question remains whether such physical exercise should be performed at the workplace or in the private sphere at home. Performing physical exercise at the workplace together with colleagues may be more motivating for some employees and thus increase compliance. On the other hand, physical exercise at the workplace may be costly for the employers in terms of time spend. Thus, relevant ground exists to compare the efficacy of workplace- versus home-based training on musculoskeletal pain. This study investigates the effect of workplace-based versus home-based physical exercise on musculoskeletal pain among healthcare workers.

The main hypothesis is that physical exercise at the workplace for 10 weeks compared with physical exercise at home results in reduced musculoskeletal pain among healthcare workers.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-08-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-08-10
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-13
• Study Start: 2013-09
• Primary Completion: 2013-12
• Status Verified: 2014-01
• Study Completion: 2014-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-01-26
• Last Update Posted: 2014-01-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• healthcare worker
• female
• age 18-67

Exclusion Criteria

• life threatening disease
• pregnancy

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Home physical exercise	Home physical exercise	Physical exercise performed at home with elastic bands and bodyweight exercises with instruction to follow the exercises at http://www.jobogkrop.dk/Oevelser-til-nakke-og-ryg/Oevelser
Workplace physical exercise	Workplace physical exercise	Physical exercise (kettlebells, elastic bands, exercise balls) performed at the workplace with coaching

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain intensity	change from baseline to week 10	The change in "pain intensity during the last week" from baseline to 10 week follow-up between the workplace- and home-training group. The home-training group will be considered the reference group. 2-way analysis of variance (Proc Mixed of SAS) with repeated measures will be used, with time and group as fixed factors and subject as random factor. Department will be added as a cluster effect.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Work ability index (WAI)	change from baseline to week 10
Physical exertion during work	change from baseline to week 10
Muscle function	change from baseline to week 10

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Research Centre for the Working Environment; 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark