| dc.description.abstract | In this work, various work-related musculoskeletal disorders were
conscientiously studied from a gender perspective among the staff
of Bishop Stuart University. A total of 112 staff members consented
to participate in the study. 62 were females and 50 were males. The
majority of our participants were within the age range of 30-39. The
academic staff were 68 and the non-academic staff were 44. The
Krejcie and Morgan Table of 1970 was used to determine the
sample size. The supporting staff members, visiting lecturers, and
part-time staff were excluded from the study. The study was cross
sectional and the tool of data collection was Self structured,
validated questionnaire. The data collection exercise lasted for 6
weeks, after which the collected data were analysed with SPSS
version 25. The results revealed Low back pain, blurred vision,
upper back pain, neck pain and shoulder/wrist pain were the
common work-related musculoskeletal disorders suffered by the
staff members. The study findings revealed that more male
academic staff members suffered from work-related
musculoskeletal disorders than their female counterparts.
Conversely, the result of the study showed also that among the non academic staff, there were more female sufferers of work-related
musculoskeletal disorders than their male counterparts.
Nevertheless, it was also noted that there was a concatenation of
factors among other things that brought about the work-related
musculoskeletal disorders, among staff members judging from
Ergonomics standpoint. Such concatenation of factors was poor
ergonomic knowledge application at workstation practices, lack of
orientation on ergonomics, ergonomically designed working
environment, etc. | en_US |
