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Validity of self-assessed reports of occurrence and duration of occupational tasks
Authors:Unge J  Hansson Gert-Ake  Ohlsson K  Nordander C  Axmon A  Winkel J  Skerfving S
Affiliation:Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden. jeannette.unge@sjukgym.lu.se
Abstract:To obtain quantitative estimates of the physical workload in epidemiological and intervention studies of musculoskeletal disorders, there is a need to extend task based exposure data to job exposure profiles. For this purpose a work task diary was developed and evaluated. This was validated against direct observations of a day's work for twenty-two female office workers and twenty female hospital cleaners. There was a good agreement regarding the occurrence of the main tasks. However, the less time-consuming tasks were under-reported. Moreover, about two thirds of the changes between tasks were not reported. The difficulties of defining tasks that function as occupational entities seems to be a major reason for the lack of agreement. The underestimation of the duration of breaks/pauses was most pronounced for the cleaners. Still, the diary would be useful for the calculation of job exposure, by time-weighting task exposure data, when the tasks and/or their duration vary between days.
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