Journal of Ergonomics
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Department of Environmental Health, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Occupational-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and Associated Factors among Beauty Salon Workers, Adama Town, South-Eastern Ethiopia, 2018
  Author(s): Sina Temsgen Tolera* and Sintayehu Kebede Kabeto
  
  Intoduction: Occupational-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) often present significant health and costeffective loads on all the societies exposed any work type mostly in low income countries. Consequently, information pertaining to occupational related musculoskeletal disorders among Beauty Salon Workers (BSW) in our country; Ethiopia is unidentified. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence occupational-related musculoskeletal disorder among beauty salon workers in Adama town, Eastern Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was applied from April to May 2018. About 372 beauty salon workers recruited as sample using the systematic random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS_ Version 21). The significance of associations was evaluated at alpha 0.05 p-value with a confidence intervals (95%) and Adjus.. View More»
  

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