STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF WORK FROM HOME ON FATIGUE AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS (MSD) DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• Main Author: Shafa Larasati, Amanda
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Teknik saniter dan perkotaan; teknik perlindungan lingkungan
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/70852
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Working from home is one of the preventive measures against the COVID-19 virus spreading. The difference in working environments between home and the office is likely to cause occupational health ignorance, resulting in fatigue and muscle discomfort, also known as musculoskeletal disorder. As a result, research was conducted to learn about the fatigue and musculoskeletal pain experienced by workers who work from home, their causes, and the relationship between the effects and the workers' habits while working from home. The questionnaire contains questions regarding the worker’s information, habits while working from home, analysis questions about fatigue using the Fatigue Assessment Scale, and analysis questions about musculoskeletal disorders using the Nordic Body Map. Results show that the majority of respondents experienced mild-to-moderate fatigue, accounting for 58% of all respondents, with the upper neck, lower neck, right shoulder, back, hips, buttocks, and bottom being the most commonly complainedabout body parts. Fatigue is strongly related to how long the workers work in their respective companies, the equivalency between workloads and working hours, and frequency of exercise, while MSD is significantly related to the total hours of working from home, the use of mouse, keyboard, stylus pen, and fingers for touchpad/touchscreen, chair preferences, regularity of working hours, frequency of working overtime, and duration of sleep. The total hours of working from home, the frequency of working overtime, and the frequency of exercise can cause fatigue and MSD due to the large odds ratio value.