Physical and Work Variables in Professional Musicians (SActMWQoLMU)

Physical activity

By Ipaq Short Form. The short form records activity at four levels of intensity: 1) vigorous intensity activity such as aerobics, 2) moderate intensity activity such as leisure riding a bike, 3) walking and 4) sitting.

Musculoskeletal disorders

Will be evaluated by the Nordic questionnaire, this tool is used to detect symptoms musculoskeletal such as pain, discomfort, numbness or tingling. It includes two important sections: The first is choice questions mandatory in which the subject marks the areas of the body where pain occurs; The second section contains related questions on the functional impact of pain symptoms. Also the duration of problem, if it has been evaluated by a health professional and the evolution of pain. This questionnaire does not have a score as such, it does not have a scale to assess it, but rather what, based on the data, the analysis is extracted for each question.

Workplace Harassment

To assess mobbing at work we used the Short-Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ). It consists of 9 items of the NAQ. This is a questionnaire that collects typical harassment behaviors, with respect to which the subject must indicate the degree to which they have suffered such behaviors during the last six months. The response scale consists of five alternatives from 1 ("never") to 5 ("daily"). Some examples of the items included are: "Gossip and rumors have spread about me", "I have been the object of offenses about my person or my private life".

Health

The SF-8 questionnaire is structured with eight articles. It is divided into eight subscales (physical functioning, physical role, body pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, emotional role mental and mental health) and two summary components (physical and mental) through which the the results are expressed.

Scores on the subscales and summary. The components are presented as a mean score of 50. Therefore, scores below 50 points correspond to deviations from normality and indicate a poorer quality of life, while scores above 50 the points represent a better quality of life.

Anxiety and depression

The Golberg scale will be used, a test that orients the diagnosis towards anxiety or depression or both, and discriminates between them and measures their respective intensities. This scale contains 2 subscales with 9 questions each:

• Anxiety subscale (questions 1-9). If from questions 1-4, a minimum of 2 questions are not answered in the affirmative, the test is not carried out.
• Depression subscale (questions 10-18). If from questions 10-13, a minimum of 1 questions are not answered in the affirmative, the test is not carried out.

For its interpretation, the affirmative responses of the Anxiety scale and those of the Depression scale are counted. The cut-off points are 4 or more for the Anxiety subscale and 2 or more for Depression, with scores that are higher the more severe the problem (the maximum possible being 9 in each of the subscales). .

Professional burnout

The Brief Burnout Questionnaire (CBB) will be used. This questionnaire aims to define the Burnout Syndrome or professional burnout syndrome and understand its dimensions. Burnout Syndrome can be defined as the symptoms of exhaustion and emotional exhaustion, the presence of depersonalization and the lack of personal fulfillment that is generated through a process of work stress maintained over time. Three dimensions are contemplated that include the previous factors of Burnout, the development of Burnout Syndrome and the consequences of this Syndrome. The antecedent factors of Burnout include items related to dissatisfaction with the task performed and with the organization in the workplace. The CBB questionnaire consists of 21 items that are evaluated by quantifying the global affectation of the subject by Burnout Syndrome in low, medium or high affectation in each of the three categories mentioned above.