PENGARUH TATA LETAK LAYAR KOMPUTER TERHADAP TIMBULNYA KELUHAN NYERI TENGKUK PADA PENGGUNA KOMPUTER

• Main Authors: , dr. Roosmirsa Gayatri, , Dr. dr. Djoko Prakosa, PA.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2011
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/88533/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=50983
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Objective: Recently the use of computers in the workplace has increased significantly. The computer users often suffer from muscle disorders of neck pain, shoulder and lower back, thereby reducing productivity. It is caused by nonergonomic arrangement of work station, bad working posture and individual factors of the computer users. This research is aimed to determine the influence of monitor screen placement to the occurrence of neck pain complaint after being given the task of typing an article for 45 minutes. Method : The design of this study is a quasi experimental design with one group pre-post test, to seek the impact of the monitor screen placement in three different angles of 150,300 and 450 ( angle made by the line trough the center of monitor below the horizontal line which draw trough the eye) to neck pain complaint. The research subjects were 10 high school students who actively use computers in their daily life. Data obtained using a questionnaire and assessment of neck pain by Visual Analoque Scale (VAS). Data analysis to compare the three angles is using One Way Anova if data is normally distributed and using Kruskal Wallis test if data is not normally distributed at the level of significance (α= 0,05), while the difference in the neck pain complaint before and after the intervention is analysed using Paired Samples Test. Results : The VAS value before the intervention was not indicating any significant differences in the three- angles, this suggests relatively equal conditions or comforts on the subject before the given intervention. On the mean VAS after intervention show that the neck complaint is lower at the angle of 150, followed by angle of 300 and the worst is angle of 450 but statisticaly there is no significant difference in the three-angles. This finding differs from previous research and hypotheses that can be caused by several factors such as duration of intervention, unskilled ability to type with computer, a limited number of subjects and the timing of research after other previous activities. From the comparison before and after the intervention was found significant differences which means these interventions can lead to increase neck pain complaint.