BACKGROUND: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) are the leading cause of work disability. Healthcare workers (HCW) have a particularly high risk of developing these disorders. OBJECTIVE: To review the current knowledge, from an occupational therapy (OT) perspective, on interventions for upper body WMSD among HCW in close contact with clients through manual handling. METHODS: This systematic review attempted to gather experimental and observational studies published between 2008 and 2019, that discussed interventions within OT practice to prevent or treat WMSD of the upper body among HCW. The searches were conducted on CINAHL, Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, PubMed, OTSeeker, AMED and Emerald. RESULTS: Nine articles were included in the final analysis. Overall, the methodological quality of the articles was moderate. The main preventive measures used were classified according to the components of the Person-Environment-Occupation-Performance model. The identified interventions were training in ergonomics and safe patient-handling, the use of assistive devices and equipment, physical exercise, and workplace modifications. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that these interventions are effective in the prevention and treatment of upper body WMSD in HCW. Furthermore, these interventions appear to be more beneficial when combined together. Researchers could also investigate the effectiveness of interventions targeting psychological factors in the prevention of WMSD.

Syfte: Att identifiera behovet för arbetsterapi i Nehemiah Autism Center genom att utföra en behovsanalys. Metod: Mixad-metod användas för att utveckla en passande behovsanalys för att identifiera behovet för arbetsterapi. Resultat: Alla områden där en arbetsterapeut kan bidrag till valdes. Kommunikation och sociala färdigheter rapporterades mest frekvent och beteende förvaltning rankades som viktigast bland vårdnadshavare. Bland anställda, fritid och lek rapporterades mest frekvent och stresshantering rankades som viktigast. Utbildningsmöjligheter, kommunikation mellan anställda och medarbetare relation identifierades som stödjande faktorer för att uppnå målet på Nehemiah Autism Center. Stigma, religion och kulturell mångfald rapporterades som icke-stödjande faktorer för att uppnå målet på Nehemiah Autism Center. Slutsats: Det finns ett behov för arbetsterapi för att möta behovet hos barn med autism på Nehemiah Autism Center i Addis Ababa, Etiopien. / Aim: To identify the occupational therapy needs at the Nehemiah Autism Center by completing a needs assessment. Method: A mixed-methods design was adopted to construct a comprehensive needs assessment to identify the occupational therapy needs. Result: All areas of what an occupational therapist could assist with were selected as an area of need. Communication and social skills were most frequently reported and behavior management was ranked as most important among caregivers. Among staff members, leisure and play was reported most frequently and stress management was ranked as most important. Training opportunities, communication among staff members, and co-worker relationship were identified to be supporting factors in achieving the goal at Nehemiah Autism Center. Stigma, religion, and cultural diversity were reported to be unsupportive factors in achieving the goal at Nehemiah Autism Center. Conclusion: There is a great need for occupational therapy services to attend to children with autism spectrum disorder at Nehemiah Autism Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-08-06Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:19:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 passaura_l_me_fran.pdf: 1336911 bytes, checksum: 6da9fba4015d4318c7e21146519609b8 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho tem como objeto de estudo, a intensificação da qualidade de sujeito das mulheres que participaram da experiência da Associação das Lavadeiras, em Lins, no Estado de São Paulo, na década de 1980. Suas aspirações, valores, autonomia, dignidade demonstram essa qualidade. Perceber o processo de organização e mobilização social voltado para a valorização do trabalho coletivo e das experiências do cotidiano, como meio de participação e busca de melhorias para sua vida e de sua família. Partimos da hipótese de que, essa forma de participação das mulheres aumentou o prazer, a felicidade, melhorou a auto-estima originando uma história de inserção e protagonismo. A nossa pergunta é: até que ponto o Serviço Social contribuiu para a inserção, protagonismo e melhoria da qualidade de vida das mesmas? Na dinâmica da pesquisa documental, bibliográfica e empírica, a Faculdade de Serviço Social de Lins, revelou-se comprometida com as lavadeiras em seu processo de organização e mobilização por meio de uma proposta de estágio, em que as estagiárias participavam ativamente através da concretização do PEOP. A pesquisa de campo colheu o depoimento de quatro lavadeiras, residentes em Lins. Seus depoimentos foram gravados, transcritos e analisados. A nossa conclusão é que houve de fato, uma intensificação da qualidade de sujeitos nas mulheres que participaram deste processo. / This work aims to study the quality improvement of the women, as subjects, who took part of the Laundresses Association in Lins, São Paulo State, in the 1980’s. Their longings, values, autonomy, dignity show this quality. To realize the process of organization and social mobilization concerned to the team work and the daily experiences valorization, as a means of active taking part and searching of some improvement to their own lives as well as to their families’.The beginning is based on the hypothesis that this way the women participated, increased their pleasure, happiness, some better self-esteem- a history of social insertion and leadership arising from them. Our question is: at what extent has the Social Service contributed to those women social insertion, leadership and life quality improvement? During the dynamic documental, bibliographical and empirical research, the Social Service College of Lins demonstrated it was compromised with the laundresses in the process of organization and mobilization by means of training periods for professional practices when the training students took active part of them through the PEOP made real. During the field research we collected four laundresses’ testimonies, living in Lins. Their testimonies were tape-recorded, transcribed and analyzed. Our conclusion is that there was an intensification of the quality as subjects, of those women who took part of that process, indeed.