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Occupational Medicine 2000;50:608-613
© 2000 Society of Occupational Medicine

Gender Differences in Musculoskeletal Health of Computer and Mouse Users in the Swedish Workforce

A. Ekman, A. Andersson, M. Hagberg and E. W. Hjelm

Department of Occupational Medicine, Sahlgrenska University hospital Goteborg, Sweden

The objectives of the study were to explore the musculoskeletal health of Computer users in the Swedish workforce with regard to gender and psychosocial factors, and to describe gender differences between the occupational groups. A subset was chosen from a large survey of 12,462 individuals representing the workforce of Sweden, performed by Statistics Sweden. Included in the subset were 2044 subjects who worked for at least half their working hours with personal computers, or an equivalent device, and also used a computer mouse. All occupational groups had prevalence ratios (women/men) >1. When using regression models, the variables ‘learn and develop’ and ‘involved in planning your work’ were health factors, and ‘too much to do’ was a risk factor for upper body symptoms for both women and men. For women ‘PC duration 100’ was a risk factor and ‘support from superiors’ was a health factor. Age seemed to be a stronger risk factor for men than for women.

Keywords      Musculoskeletal symptoms; computer mouse; psychosocial factors; work; VDU

Received        3 February 2000
Accepted       13 July 2000

Correspondence to: Dr Anna Ekman, Department of Occupational Medicine, Goteborg University, Sahlgrenska University hospital, St Sigridsgatan 85, SE 412 66 Goteborg, Sweden. Tel: +46 31 335 4876; fax: +46 31 40 97 28; e-mail: anna.ekman{at}ymk.gu.se


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