Personal service assistance: musculoskeletal disorders and injuries in consumer-directed home care

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• Personal Author:
  Faucett J ; Kang T ; Newcomer R
• Description:
  Background: Like other types of care for disabled or elderly adults, consumer-directed personal assistance services may present multi-factorial risks for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs). Methods: Using survey data, we compared providers experiencing WRMSDs in the previous year to those who did not, seeking to identify functional, temporal, physical, and relationship risk factors for transient and chronic conditions. Results: Longer work experience with the recipient and more frequent bending increased the risk of being in the most chronic group (> / = 12 painful episodes), whereas predictable work hours with rest breaks and greater social support from the recipient appeared protective. For transient conditions (one to two episodes), longer work experience with the recipient and predictable hours with rest breaks appeared protective. Conclusions: We offer recommendations to improve hazard assessment as well as training and information distribution related to home care programs. With the population aging, home care jobs require increasing oversight to prevent WRMSDs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Delivery Of Health Care Environmental Monitoring Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Author Keywords: Personal Assistance Services Body-mechanics Body-regions Chronic-exposure Exposure-assessment Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-services Health-surveys Home Care Humans Injury-prevention Medical-care Medical-services Musculoskeletal Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Occupational-hazards Occupational Injury Rest-periods Risk-analysis Risk-factors Service-industries Social Support Sociological-factors Training Work-analysis Work-intervals

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  454-468
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042983
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2013 Apr; 56(4):454-468
• Contact Point Address:
  Julia Faucett, RN, PhD, FAAN, Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0608
• Email:
  julia.faucett@nursing.ucsf.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Performing Organization:
  University of California San Francisco
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20100831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c050a856475835f125c1e6e030bf86c24ef25d0b780e35a1af5d57b5b94aa6d977bc0ed6f132506b662fbfb00f2934ad8b08ea24255ef5a83f2e1c73e02e3b8b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195028/cdc_195028_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 170.99 KB ]