Document Type

Report

College

College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Department

Occupational Therapy

Degree

Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD)

Report Date

7-2024

Faculty Mentor

Murray, Erin

Doctoral Experiential Coordinator

Latour, Debra

Abstract

"In the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), injury during the first 9-weeks of training has the highest risk for injury (Sefton et al, 2016; Radzak et al, 2020; Wooldridge et al, 2022). Most injuries are musculoskeletal injuries (MSKI) and occur most of the time within the joint or supporting structures (Chiaramonte, 2019; Radzak et al, 2020). The cadets often do not fully understand the consequences to occupational domains from injuries, and fewer than half are confident to prevent injury (Wooldridge et al, 2022). Education of ergonomics in cadet-specific domains and non-specific domains is a barrier to cadets being independent of being able to prevent injuries in themselves and others. Specific domains are in reference to activities that a cadet would be expected to participate in as part of an ROTC program, where a nonspecific domain would be any other activity that any individual would participate in daily. The Preventing Wounded Warriors program was created as part of the 2024 Doctoral Experiential (DEx) capstone project to address the gaps in education for joint protection strategies for ROTC cadets. Over 14 weeks, the program gathered data from surveys and tests in a quasi-experimental format before four one-hour classes educational interventions in ergonomics were applied once per week for the participants (n = 6). At the conclusion of a participant group’s four weeks, post- survey (Appendix C) and test (Appendix D) data was gathered to measure the change in participant confidence and knowledge of joint-injury prevention."

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