Occupational health and teleteaching: risks identified in Honduran university students (#1874)

Authors

Ruiz Martínez, Armando Miguel

Martínez Valladares, María Fernanda

Abstract

As a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, universities have chosen to adapt their teaching models to virtual and hybrid environments, which means that students and teachers carry out their activities from home through a computer, cell phone or electronic tablet. In view of this, the study of the ergonomic risks that exist when working in these modalities becomes relevant. An online survey was carried out, obtaining 159 university students who received part of their training in teleteaching. As part of the results, an increase in visual, lumbar and auditory conditions is observed, where 75% of the sample studied presents some risk symptoms of a muscle disease