The Effect of Tangkil Flakers Changes Against Hand Pain in Emping Industry Workers in Banten
- DOI
- 10.2991/ichlas-17.2017.37How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- hand pain; pestle; VAS
- Abstract
The position of work and tools that are not appropriate can cause a pain. In emping workers, many complained about musculoskeletal disorders in the form of hand pain. A very simple hammer tool was still used in emping maker. This study aims to examine the effect of tangkil flakers changes on hand pain. This study was using quasi-design experiments of one group pre and post test, using the intervention of the pitcher in the form of pestle and performed on 31 emping workers. Data collection was done by interview, physical examination and observation. The inclusion criteria was a worker with working period 1 year and willing to be a respondent by signing informed consent, the exclusion criteria was having a history of rheumatoid arthritis disease, having congenital abnormalities on the hands, being on pain reliever and having fracture on hand. The results showed a decrease in the scale of hand pain after intervention for 14 days at 93.5%. There was a significant difference in the scale of hand pain before and after intervention with pestle as a new tangkil flakers by p value= 0.000. The hypothesis proved that there was a decrease of hand pain after intervention with pestle for 14 days compared to before intervention (p = 0.000 : 95% CI = 1.07 – 1.72). The prevalence of hand pain in emping workers was 82%.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Maria E Putri PY - 2017/12 DA - 2017/12 TI - The Effect of Tangkil Flakers Changes Against Hand Pain in Emping Industry Workers in Banten BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Integrative Conference on Health, Life and Social Sciences (ICHLaS 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 51 EP - 55 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ichlas-17.2017.37 DO - 10.2991/ichlas-17.2017.37 ID - Putri2017/12 ER -