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Experimental study of assistant aids and new nursing method in nursing care work

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Motegi, Nobuyuki | Matsuda, Fumiko | Takeuchi, Yuriko | Misawa, Tetsuo

Affiliations: Institute for Science of Labour,Kanagawa,Japan | Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, JAPAN, [email protected]

Note: [] Nobuyuki MOTEGI. E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: assistive devices, electromyography, workload

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0912-5662

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5662-5664, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

This study seeks to evaluate the effect of regular and new nursing methods in nursing care work. Nursing care work often causes low back pain in nursing care worker. The principle of not lifting when transferring patients has been proposed as one way to prevent low back pain. This principle incorporates the use of the patient’s strength and assistant aids. A sliding seats and transfer boards have been proposed as assistant aids for the transferring patients. It is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of these assistant aids in preventing low back pain. Ten subjects performed two tasks in this experiment. Five were nursing experienced persons and five were the inexperienced. EMG results indicated that the new nursing method was less stressful than the methods. A questionnaire revealed that the new method was evaluated more highly than the regular method. Based on these results, we propose that a sliding seats and transfer boards be used in nursing care work.

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