Abstract
Background: Computers are being used in every aspect of life. This has also lead to occupational health problem. Hence the study was aimed at exploring the health related problems in computer professionals. Objective: 1) To study the prevalence of health disorders among computer professionals. 2) To assess the Knowledge, Attitude & Practices (KAP) among the computer professionals. Method: A Cross-sectional study was conducted with sample size of 134( M : 95, F : 39) computer professionals, from Nagpur IT company which included software developers, marketing groups and data entry workers. Result: Prevalence of health problem is 83% in the computer workers Awareness about Health effects on computer professionals was good 72% .Body ache (59%) and Visual symptoms (52%) were very commonly seen. In the Body ache; Backache (34%) and Headache 16%) were very common .In the Visual symptoms; watering of eye (13%) and eye strain (12%) were common. Conclusion: Computer professionals were prone to certain health problems like backache, watering of eye; computer field needs to be emphasized as a field of concern in occupational health and appropriate ergonomics should be applied in order to decrease the health problems related to morbidity.
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