Prevention and Intervention of Neck Pain in Swiss Office-Workers

Summary

This study is the first that investigates the impact of a multi-component intervention combining current evidence of effective interventions with an adherence app to assess the potential benefits on productivity, neck pain, and headache.

Conditions

• Neck Pain
• Headache
• Musculoskeletal Diseases
• Adherence, Patient
• Absenteeism
• Workplace
• Health Promotion
• Ergonomics
• Efficiency
• Presenteeism
• Occupational Health
• Surveys and Questionnaires
• Adult
• Exercise Therapy
• Work Performance

Interventions

OTHER

Multi-component intervention

Participants' workstation ergonomics will be assessed using an observation-based ergonomics assessment checklist for office-workers adapted to Swiss guidelines. Based on the initial assessment, best practice ergonomics will be applied individually using existing infrastructure. Participants will attend health promotion information group workshops for approximately one hour per week for 12 weeks. it. Participants will receive an individual progressive exercise programme aimed at conditioning the muscles of the neck and shoulder girdle. The exercises will be performed in groups (maximum of ten per group) at the workplace in a dedicated room, for approximately one hour (3x20 minutes) per week; once per week supervised by a physiotherapist, a human movement scientist, or a health scientist, and twice per week individually. Workshop session attendance will be recorded as an indication of adherence to health promotion. Adherence to neck exercises will be recorded with the Physitrack® app.

OTHER

Control

No intervention takes place during the control phase.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Swiss National Science Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Zurich University of Applied Sciences

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Markus Melloh, Prof · ZHAW School of Health Professions

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-10-28

Primary Completion

2022-07-31

Completion

2022-07-31

Countries

• Switzerland

Study Locations