The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) study: methods of data collection and characteristics of study sample

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• Personal Author:
  Barrero LH ; Benavides FG ; Bitsios P ; Bonzini M ; Carugno M ; Cattrell A ; Chatzi L ; Coggon D ; Cox K ; Delclos G ; Derett S ; Felknor, Sarah A. ; Felli VE ; Ferrario MM ; Freire R ; Gimeno D ; Gray A ; Habib RR ; Harari F ; Harari N ; Harari R ; Harcombe H ; Harris EC ; Hoe VCW ; Kadir M ; Kelsall HL ; Kielkowski D ; Kogevinas M ; Martinez JM ; Marziale MH ; Matsudaira K ; McBride D ; Merisalu E ; Monroy MV ; Ntani G ; Nyantumbu B ; Oha K ; Palmer KT ; Peiris-John RJ ; Pesatori AC ; Quintana LA ; Rojas M ; Sadeghian A ; Sadeghian F ; Salazar Vega EJ ; Sarquis LM ; Sathiakumar N ; Serra C ; Sim, Malcolm R. ; Sirk T ; Solidaki E ; Urquhart DM ; Vargas-Prada S ; Warnakulasuriya SSP ; Wickremasinghe AR ; Yoshimura N
• Description:
  BACKGROUND: The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) study was established to explore the hypothesis that common musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and associated disability are importantly influenced by culturally determined health beliefs and expectations. This paper describes the methods of data collection and various characteristics of the study sample. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A standardised questionnaire covering musculoskeletal symptoms, disability and potential risk factors, was used to collect information from 47 samples of nurses, office workers, and other (mostly manual) workers in 18 countries from six continents. In addition, local investigators provided data on economic aspects of employment for each occupational group. Participation exceeded 80% in 33 of the 47 occupational groups, and after pre-specified exclusions, analysis was based on 12,426 subjects (92 to 1018 per occupational group). As expected, there was high usage of computer keyboards by office workers, while nurses had the highest prevalence of heavy manual lifting in all but one country. There was substantial heterogeneity between occupational groups in economic and psychosocial aspects of work; three- to five-fold variation in awareness of someone outside work with musculoskeletal pain; and more than ten-fold variation in the prevalence of adverse health beliefs about back and arm pain, and in awareness of terms such as "repetitive strain injury" (RSI). CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The large differences in psychosocial risk factors (including knowledge and beliefs about MSDs) between occupational groups should allow the study hypothesis to be addressed effectively. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Epidemiology Health Personnel Men Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Women

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• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Humans Keyboard-operators Manual-materials-handling Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Nurses Nursing Office-workers Questionnaires Repetitive-work Risk-factors Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Workers

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• ISSN:
  1932-6203
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041404
• Citation:
  PLoS One 2012 Jul; 7(7):e39820
• Contact Point Address:
  David Coggon, Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
• Email:
  dnc@mrc.soton.ac.uk
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  PLoS One
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2ce5d00d43d45f478771a7730fc53bb7ae1dcb073e3795148cea6dce6e36ff4a1cd1a476404a721e0a20ebaa105ffa883b3185d66bd69d62d809639fded3cf22
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193978/cdc_193978_DS1.pdf
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