The Prevalence of Musculoskelet al Disorders and Posture Assessment by ART method in Mosaic art in Kerman city

Introduction and Aims:
The workers of mosaic art are susceptible to musculoskelet al disorders due to various risk factors including
body posture during work, repetition of movement, old and sometimes non-ergonomic tools. The aims of
this study were estimating the prevalence of musculoskelet al disorder and assessment of body posture of
workers in the mosaic workers in Kerman.
Methods:
In this study, calling out Kerman Office of Cultural Heritage, 16 mosaic workshops and 32 mosaic workers
were selected. Standardized Nordic questionnaire were completed for 26 mosaic worker. Using hierarchical
task analysis, task of the mosaic profession were analyzed. After using ART posture analysis method for
assessment of repetitive task, body posture of worker were used. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 18.
Results:
In this study, 18 (69.2%) males and 8 (30.8%) female were selected The mean of age (year), work
experience (year) and working hours per day (hours) were subsequently 6.6, 32.9 and 11.9, respectively The
highest prevalence of musculoskelet al disorders during the past 12 months was in neck with a prevalence
of (66.7%), upper back with prevalence of (63.2%).
The results of the ART assessment method showed that, calculated risk scores for right and left hands in the
mosaic career were not equal. And risk scores in all right hand's functions was higher than left hand's ones,
that these results are consistent with the results of the Nordic questionnaire.
Conclusion:
The results of posture assessment indicated that body condition of right hand were more critical than left
ones, and results of ART method confirm the Nordic questionnaire results.

*Corresponding author:
MSc Student in Occupational Health Engineering, member of Kerman Medical Student Research Committee.
Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Email: mardi.hossein@gmail.com