Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Interventions to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders in Blue-Collar Workers: A Scoping Review.
Suzan Mooren-van der Meer, Denise J M Smit, Nathan Hutting and 5 others
PMID 38218906WHAT IT FOUND
Preventing musculoskeletal disorders in blue-collar workers is more likely to be implemented when workers help design and choose the program, and when managers support changes.
Barriers include rigid production cultures, weak employer support, and too many job rotations.
Key findings
01A participatory approach, training by experienced employees, and multidimensional programs with choices for workers were reported as intervention-related facilitators.
02Worker autonomy and supportive attitudes were reported as individual facilitators, while unfavorable worker characteristics, unsupportive attitudes, and poor communication or cooperation were reported as barriers.
03More than three job rotations in a shift was reported as a barrier, and a maximum of three rotations during a nine-hour shift was given as a practical limit.
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What it does not show
This is a scoping review of implementation factors, not a trial of effectiveness, so it does not show that any intervention prevents musculoskeletal disorders. The included studies had many different designs, so the authors did not assess risk of bias. Only 15 articles were included, and the authors said the search may have missed studies because of the key terms or research question. Only countries with a human development index of 0.80 to 1.0 were included, so the findings may not transfer to other settings. The review did not synthesize musculoskeletal health outcomes, so a clinician cannot use it to predict pain, function, or work participation effects.
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The supplied text names RegieOrgaan SIA and ZonMw as funders and does not include an author conflict-of-interest statement.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the listed facilitators as proof that these workplace programs prevent MSDs. This scoping review mapped implementation factors from 15 heterogeneous studies and did not test whether interventions reduce MSDs.