Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: February | Volume: 10 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 215-222
Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorder among House Wives and Working Women
Nabeela Nazish1, Monisha Jennifer Charles2, Vijaykrishna Kumar3
1Assistant professor, DR. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College (Department Of Physiotherapy), Bengaluru: 560045
2BPT Student, DR. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College (Department Of Physiotherapy), Bengaluru: 560045
3Principal, DR. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College (Department Of Physiotherapy), Bengaluru: 560045
Corresponding Author: Nabeela Nazish
ABSTRACT
Background: Musculoskeletal pain is very common in both development and developing countries with estimates of prevalence ranging from 11-60%. The previous studies suggest that the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain among women were more than men.This study aims to assess prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder among house wife and working women.
Methods: Sample size of 100 were taken among age group of 25-40yrs. which has been divided into two groups. Group A (50) includes house wife and Group B (50) includes working women, Standard Nordic questionnaire has been employed to assess prevalence of MSD’s among the groups.
Result: The result showed that there is a significant difference between different category of shoulder pain and groups but there is no significant difference between other joint region pain and groups.
Conclusion: There is a significant difference between different category of shoulder pain and groups so we can conclude by the result that house wives are more prone for shoulder pain than working women. For other joint regions, there is no marked significant difference among housewives and working women but both are prone for getting musculoskeletal pain. Counselling, postural correction and awareness sessions should be conducted on ergonomics to maintain and prevent the MSD’s among House wife and Working women.
Key words: MSD’s, House wife, Working women ,Nordic scale, RSI,QOL,WMSD