Evaluating ergonomic practices and their effect on health of computer users at DRPCAU Pusa Bihar

Abstract

Introduction: Now a day a large number of populations was using computer for their daily activities, which leads to increase in the number of users complaining about various musculoskeletal problems.Objective: To study the socio-economic profile and to determine the effect of computer usage on health of the users. Materials and Methods: A pre structured questionnaire was prepared to collect all the information of computer users working in DRPCAU campus. The questionnaire covered socio-economic profile of users and various health related problems faced by the computer users. Results: All the computer users (100%) had taken break from the computer work as they had felt tired after working for a long time. Gender and family size of the computer users were positively significant, while work environment of the users was negatively significant with the effect of computer usage on the health of computer users at 0.05 significant level (t=1.671). Age, education, occupation and income were highly significant with the effect of computer usage on the health of computer users at 1 per cent significant level (t=2.39). Conclusion: The nature of work on computer is sedentary type and it increases the static body stress due to inadequate workplace dimensions, hence the users develop different health impact, which affect the efficiency of the computer users.