Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Among Undergraduate Dental Students, Cairo University Towards Ergonomics

NCT ID: NCT04237051

Last Updated: 2025-08-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 374 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-01

Brief Summary

this study will evaluate knowledge, attitude, and practice of fifth-year dental students Cairo university toward ergonomics

Detailed Description

Ergonomic is the study of people and their working environment. Ergonomic consequently is the science concerned with designing products and procedures to maximize efficiency and safety.

The world health organization defines Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) as "a disorder of the muscles Tendons, joints, intervertebral discs, Peripheral nerves, and vascular system''.

The musculoskeletal disorders are common among medical professionals, and especially dentists and dental hygienists, because of the prevalence of different postures in dental procedures, prolonged stature, unsupported sitting, griping smaller and thin instruments for a longer time and limited access during dental procedures.

Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) affect muscle, joints, tendons, ligaments, and nerves and caused by work itself or by working environment. It has been reported that back pain is the most common followed by neck pain and shoulder pain. If early signs and symptoms are noted, with the understanding of mechanisms of progression of the disease, MSDs can be prevented at earlier stage.

(Gupta et al., 2014), state some signs and symptoms of MSD on dentists:

Signs of MSDs:

• Decreased range of motion.
• Loss of normal sensation.
• Decreased grip strength.
• Loss of normal movement.
• Loss of coordination.

Symptoms of MSDs:

• Excessive fatigue in the shoulders and neck.
• Tingling, burning or other pain in arms.
• Weak grip, cramping of hands.
• Numbness in fingers and hands.
• Clumsiness and dropping of objects.
• Hypersensitivity in hands and fingers.

Goals of Ergonomics according to (Pendyala and Karunakar, 2014) :

• Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and conditions which might lead to it.
• Increasing safety and productivity.
• Enhanced performance by eliminating unnecessary effort.
• Improving the standard of care to the patient.

So this study is conducted to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) among fifth-year undergraduate dental students, Cairo University towards Ergonomics

Conditions

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CROSSOVER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Fifth-year undergraduate dental students, Cairo University at the time of the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Refusal to participate

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 23 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Wessam Maher Gomaa Tag El-Dein

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Wessam Maher Gomaa Tag El-Dein

postgraduate student in faculty of dentistry cairo university

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

hassan ahmed

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

center of evidence based dentistry

Locations

Wessam Maher

Cairo, Mokatam, Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Other Identifiers

CEBD-CU-2020-01-18

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id