Effects of a health, safety and well-being programme (MovErgo) in work musculoskeletal disorders

This study aim to assess efficacy of implementation of a combined exercise and educational program in pain perception of industrial workers. The pertinence of this work is the need to define a specific and effective health and well being program in the reduction and prevention of the high prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in occupational context in the automobile industry, optimizing the functionality and physical condition of the individual, which is currently a major public health challenge for an aging society. The proposed program has a total duration of 12 weeks, consisting of sessions with a 4 weekly frequency with duration of 10 minutes at the beginning of each work shift. Physical exercise sessions (3 times week) and psychoeducation sessions (1 time week) Prior to the implementation of the program, individual will be evaluated through multiple tests. This is an interventional study with control group. Prior to the implementation of the program, all individuals will be evaluated through multiple tests, such as algometry, flexibility test, strength (1RM) and cardio respiratory capacity with 6 min walking test. Data about Psychosocial risks and sociodemographic condition will be evaluated with questionnaire. The organization of each data collection session should ensure that the proposed measures are all implemented in a single session and in order to minimize as little as possible the collection will be done by an external element to the research. All instructions prior to the start of the program should be ensured, with respect to the detailed information to all participants and sectors involved, about the organization of the program, objective and activities, explaining carefully all the procedures to be performed to the workers. In order to ensure the ethics of the procedures, an awareness-raising action will be carried out on the participants of the study, to explain objectives and methodology of the project, being careful not to induce individuals, so that the expected results are not biased. Each participant will also be given a statement of informed consent in accordance with the recommendations of Helsinki, making explicit the possibility of abandoning the study at any time without any kind of consequence. Also the confidentiality of the identity and personal and clinical data of the subjects will be guaranteed. The informed consent statement uses clear and accessible language, not resorting to technical terminology difficult to understand for the person signing the Term of Consent. The primary purpose of this process was to obtain the free and properly informed manifestation of the individual who is being invited to participate in the research project and was not seen as a mere legal or bureaucratic formality to be fulfilled, safeguarding any type of coercion in the process of recruiting volunteers