Assessing the existence of work related musculoskeletal disorders and their influences on office workers in some selected woredas of North Showa Zone

The purpose of this study was to investigate the existence of work related musculoskeletal disorders and their influences on office workers in some selected woredas of North Showa Zone. Currently work related musculoskeletal disorders are becoming the disaster problems facing our world. This study attempted to assess the existence of upper body work related musculoskeletal disorders and their influences on office workers. Subject in this study were 172 secretarial and 171 administrators were selected from the total population of 407, and 407 respectively. The total sample sizes were 816 from this 343(42%) sample respondents were taken among these 282 respondents chosen for questionnaire and 61 respondents for interview. Each office has been selected by stratified sampling based on purposively expected availability of information and participants were categorized according to their demographic placement such as sex, age, education and type of job. A descriptive survey study was used to carry out this research. As a methods of data gathering tools; questionnaire, interview, and document analysis were employed. To analyze the collected data, both qualitative and quantitative methods such as descriptive statements and frequency counts, and percentage were on use respectively. Results of the study exposed that North Showa Zone office worker: -have lack of sufficient knowledge, lack of regular exercise, hang around long period of time on computer, remaining long period of time on the same work, suffering a pain on their upper body. To overcome these offices those are found in North Showa Zone should help their workers to have information about WMSD and its prevention mechanisms are important to prevent and also to solve the problem.