Publications by authors named "Reza Maghbouli"
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- The study focuses on creating a multidisciplinary educational program using the Health Belief Model (HBM) to help elderly nursing home residents manage musculoskeletal pain.
- Participants aged 60 and over will be split into an intervention group receiving comprehensive care (including vitamin D, stress management, and physiotherapy) and a control group getting standard care.
- The effectiveness of the program will be assessed through various questionnaires at different intervals to measure changes in pain levels, mental health, and adherence to new healthy practices.
Background: Ergonomic behaviors play a crucial role in preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). To measure these behaviors, this research aimed to develop and evaluate an ergonomic behaviors tool (EBET) based on the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) among women workers on assembly lines (WwAL).
Methods: The study was conducted from December 2022 to January 2023 with a focus on the psychometric assessment of EBET.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates ergonomic behaviors among women workers on assembly lines to prevent musculoskeletal disorders caused by repetitive tasks and poor posture.
- It utilizes Bayesian networks and social cognitive theory to analyze data from 250 workers in six industries in Iran, using methods like self-report questionnaires and statistical analyses.
- Results indicate that factors such as physical activity, dairy consumption, and education level significantly influence ergonomic behaviors, with constructs from social cognitive theory (like observational learning and social support) showing notable sensitivity in predicting these behaviors.
Background: The use of preventive behaviors of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) requires proper training, which leads to correct decisions regarding maintaining postures at work and performing stretching exercises. Due to very repetitive work, applying manual force, improper postures, and static contractions of proximal muscles, assembly-line female workers suffer from musculoskeletal pains. It is assumed that structured and theory-based educational intervention using a learning-by-doing (LBD) approach may increase the preventive behaviors against MSDs and reduce the consequences of these disorders.
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