Occupational and environmental medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Effect of a participatory ergonomics intervention on psychosocial factors at work in a randomised controlled trial.
To study the effect of a participatory ergonomics intervention on psychosocial factors among kitchen workers. ⋯ No favourable effects on psychosocial factors at work were found. The adverse changes were due to a joint effect of the intervention and the unconnected organisational reforms. The findings do not support the usefulness of this kind of intervention in changing unsatisfactory psychosocial working conditions.