Ergonomic risk factors and physical discomfort in laptop-computer users
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examining the relationship between psychosocial work factors and musculoskeletal discomfort among computer users in malaysia
background: with computers rapidly carving a niche in virtually every nook and crevice of today's fast-paced society, musculoskeletal disorders are becoming more prevalent among computer users, which comprise a wide spectrum of the malaysian population, including office workers. while extant literature depicts extensive research on musculoskeletal disorders in general, the five dimensions of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psiholoska istrazivanja
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0352-7379
DOI: 10.5937/psistra1401019s