FREQUENCY OF DIFFERENT WORK RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS AMONG DENTISTS IN PAKISTAN

Authors

  • Asma Shakoor Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, CMH-Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, (NUMS), Pakistan
  • Aleshba Saba Khan Department of Prosthodontics, Shahida Islam Medical and Dental College, (UHS) Lahore, Pakistan.
  • Shamima Abdullah Department of Community & Preventive Dentistry, Bakhtawer Amin Medical and Dental College, Multan
  • Hira Shafique Department of Community & Preventive Dentistry, Islam Dental College,Sialkot
  • Yousaf Jamil Department of Oral Biology, Rawal Institute of Health Sciences, Islamabad
  • Aleeza Sana Department of Science of Dental Materials, School of Dentistry, Shaheed Zulfi qar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v12i03.40

Keywords:

Dentists, work related, pain, musculoskeletal disorders

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the frequency of diff erent work related musculoskeletal disorders among dentists.
Methods and materials: This cross sectional survey was conducted in diff erent public and private sectors dentistry setups using convenient sampling. In this study the data was collected from 450 dental professionals using NORDIC questionnaire and a structured proforma. Dentist with any history of fractures and surgery were excluded from the study. The data was entered and analyzed using SPSS 25. Chi-square test was used for testing the association between musculoskeletal disorder and diff erent study variable. P-value of 0.05 and less has been considered as significant
Results: Among 450 dentists 236(52.4%) were male and 214(47.6%) were female. Mena age of male were 37.08±9.27 whereas mean age of female was33.43±10.42years. Among the dentist 393(87.3%) have musculoskeletal disorder. Among these 393 subjects 388(86.22%) have pain; 124(31.6%) have Mild, 122(31.0%) have moderate and 142(36.1%) have Severe Pain. Pain was found in Hand among 28(6.2%), in Wrist among 52(11.6%), in Fore Arm among 9(2.0%), in Upper Arm among 20(4.4%), in Shoulder among 314(69.8%), in Neck among 210(46.7%), in Upper Back among 20(4.4%), in Middle Back among 163(36.2%) and in Lower Back among 226(50.2%).
Conclusion: Overall Shoulder, neck and lower back pain was frequent respectively among dentists but wrist and middle back pain was statistically signifi cantly higher among female. Musculoskeletal disorder aff ects the workability of dentists as well as socioeconomically. Therefore it is suggested that there should be knowledge and practice based workshops should be conducted to address this issue.

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Published

2022-09-30

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Asma Shakoor, Aleshba Saba Khan, Shamima Abdullah, Hira Shafique, Yousaf Jamil, & Aleeza Sana. (2022). FREQUENCY OF DIFFERENT WORK RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS AMONG DENTISTS IN PAKISTAN. JOURNAL OF KHYBER COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, 12(03), 66–70. https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v12i03.40

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Vol. 12 No. 03 (2022): Journal of Khyber College of Dentistry

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