Biomechanical and physiological responses of children and young adults to different computer workstations

电脑的使用正在增加，95%的澳大利亚小学生现在使用电脑。三分之二的儿童和四分之三的成年工人报告与使用电脑有关的疼痛。这导致人们担心，电脑使用的增加可能是年轻人肌肉骨骼疾病增加的原因。人们对儿童使用电脑对身体造成的影响知之甚少。由于计算机技术和计算机使用方式的变化，我们掌握的关于成人使用的信息现在已经过时了。因此，不可能为年轻人安全使用电脑提供基于证据的建议。我们知识上的关键空白包括合适的办公桌设计和电脑显示器的位置。拟议的研究将使用生物力学和生理测量以及肌肉骨骼应力建模的最新进展来评估一系列办公桌设计和电脑显示位置，适用于年轻人，青春期前儿童和学龄早期儿童。结果将包括第一次详细描述儿童使用计算机的物理压力和工作站设计的初步指导方针。

Computer use is increasing with 95% of Australian primary school children now using computers. Two out of three children and three out of four adult workers report pain associated with computer use. This has lead to concerns that increased computer use may be responsible for an increase in musculoskeletal disorders in young people. Little is known about the physical consequences of children's use of computers. The information we have on adult use is now out of date because of changes to computer technology and how computers are used. It is therefore not possible to provide evidence-based recommendations for safe use of computers by young people. Critical gaps in our knowledge include the appropriate desk design and computer display position. The proposed studies will use recent advances in biomechanical and physiological measurement and modelling of musculoskeletal stress to evaluate a range of desk designs and computer display positions for young adults, preadolescentchilden and early school age children. The outcomes will include the first detailed description of the physical stresses of computer use by children and preliminary guidelines for workstation design.