The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) study: methods of data collection and characteristics of study sample

The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) study was established to explore the hypothesis that common musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and associated disability are importantly influenced by culturally determined health beliefs and expectations. This paper describes the methods...

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Published in:PloS one 2012-07, Vol.7 (7), p.e39820
Main Authors: Coggon, David, Ntani, Georgia, Palmer, Keith T, Felli, Vanda E, Harari, Raul, Barrero, Lope H, Felknor, Sarah A, Gimeno, David, Cattrell, Anna, Serra, Consol, Bonzini, Matteo, Solidaki, Eleni, Merisalu, Eda, Habib, Rima R, Sadeghian, Farideh, Kadir, Masood, Warnakulasuriya, Sudath S P, Matsudaira, Ko, Nyantumbu, Busisiwe, Sim, Malcolm R, Harcombe, Helen, Cox, Ken, Marziale, Maria H, Sarquis, Leila M, Harari, Florencia, Freire, Rocio, Harari, Natalia, Monroy, Magda V, Quintana, Leonardo A, Rojas, Marianela, Salazar Vega, Eduardo J, Harris, E Clare, Vargas-Prada, Sergio, Martinez, J Miguel, Delclos, George, Benavides, Fernando G, Carugno, Michele, Ferrario, Marco M, Pesatori, Angela C, Chatzi, Leda, Bitsios, Panos, Kogevinas, Manolis, Oha, Kristel, Sirk, Tuuli, Sadeghian, Ali, Peiris-John, Roshini J, Sathiakumar, Nalini, Wickremasinghe, A Rajitha, Yoshimura, Noriko, Kielkowski, Danuta, Kelsall, Helen L, Hoe, Victor C W, Urquhart, Donna M, Derrett, Sarah, Derett, Sarah, McBride, David, Gray, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Analysis
Aparell locomotor
Back pain
Biomedical research
Continents
Councils
Culture
Data collection
Disabled Persons
Economic aspects
Economic conditions
Engineering schools
Environmental health
Epidemiologia
Epidemiology
Female
Health care
Health sciences
Health Surveys
Hospitals
Humans
Keyboards
Malalties
Malalties professionals
Male
Manual lifting
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medicine
Methods
Middle Aged
Musculoskeletal diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases - epidemiology
Musculoskeletal Diseases - psychology
Neck pain
Nurses
Nursing schools
Occupational Diseases - epidemiology
Occupational Diseases - psychology
Occupational health
Pain
Prevalence
Prevention
Preventive medicine
Psychiatry
Psychological aspects
Public health
Repetitive strain injury
Risk analysis
Risk Factors
Sampling methods
Scholarships & fellowships
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Work environment
Work related injuries
Workers
Young Adult
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Summary:The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) study was established to explore the hypothesis that common musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and associated disability are importantly influenced by culturally determined health beliefs and expectations. This paper describes the methods of data collection and various characteristics of the study sample. A standardised questionnaire covering musculoskeletal symptoms, disability and potential risk factors, was used to collect information from 47 samples of nurses, office workers, and other (mostly manual) workers in 18 countries from six continents. In addition, local investigators provided data on economic aspects of employment for each occupational group. Participation exceeded 80% in 33 of the 47 occupational groups, and after pre-specified exclusions, analysis was based on 12,426 subjects (92 to 1018 per occupational group). As expected, there was high usage of computer keyboards by office workers, while nurses had the highest prevalence of heavy manual lifting in all but one country. There was substantial heterogeneity between occupational groups in economic and psychosocial aspects of work; three- to five-fold variation in awareness of someone outside work with musculoskeletal pain; and more than ten-fold variation in the prevalence of adverse health beliefs about back and arm pain, and in awareness of terms such as "repetitive strain injury" (RSI). The large differences in psychosocial risk factors (including knowledge and beliefs about MSDs) between occupational groups should allow the study hypothesis to be addressed effectively.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0039820