Upper extremity musculoskeletal pain among office workers in three Spanish-speaking countries: findings from the CUPID study

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• Personal Author:
  Campos-Fumero A ; Coggon D ; Delclos GL ; Douphrate DI ; Felknor, Sarah A. ; Gimeno Ruiz de Porras D ; Serra C ; Vargas-Prada S
• Description:
  Objectives: To estimate the prevalence and incidence of upper extremity musculoskeletal pain (UEMP) and related disability among office workers in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Spain. Methods: Data from the multinational Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability (CUPID) study on 947 (93%) participants at baseline with 90% follow-up after 12 months were employed. Logistic regression was used to estimate the associations (ORs and corresponding 95% CIs) between country and six outcomes: baseline prevalence of (1) UEMP in past 12 months, (2) UEMP in past month and (3) disabling UEMP in past month; (4) incidence of new UEMP at follow-up; (5) incidence of new disabling UEMP at follow-up and (6) persistence of UEMP at follow-up, after adjustment for sociodemographic, job-related and health-related covariates. Results: Baseline prevalence of UEMP in the past month was higher in Costa Rica (53.6%) (OR=1.89; 95% CI 1.36 to 2.62) and Nicaragua (51.9%) (OR=1.74; 95% CI 1.28 to 2.35) than in Spain (38.4%). Compared to Spain (33.2%), the incidence of new UEMP was 50.4% in Costa Rica (OR=2.04; 95% CI 1.34 to 3.12) and 60.2% in Nicaragua (OR=3.04; 95% CI 2.06 to 4.50). The incidence of disabling UEMP was higher in Nicaragua (OR=2.57; 95% CI 1.50 to 4.41) and Costa Rica (OR=2.16; 95% CI 1.22 to 3.84) when compared to Spain. Conclusions: Prevalence of UEMP was approximately twofold higher and its incidence twofold to threefold higher in Costa Rica and Nicaragua as compared with Spain. Between-country differences were only partially explained by the covariates analysed. Research is needed to explore other aspects of work and cultural attributes that might explain the residual differences in UEMP. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Race Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Body-regions Demographic-characteristics Disabled-workers Extremities Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Mathematical-models Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Office-workers Pain-tolerance Racial-factors Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  1351-0711
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  394-400
• Volume:
  73
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047553
• Citation:
  Occup Environ Med 2016 Jun; 73(6):394-400
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr Adriana Campos-Fumero, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Escuela de Ingeniería en Seguridad Laboral e Higiene Ambiental, Apartado Cartago 159-7050, Costa Rica
• Email:
  acampos@itcr.ac.cr
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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