RSI sufferers' health and wellbeing, ACT, 1985

The main aim of this study was to gather a breadth of information about the severity of life stresses and strains that Repetition Strain Injury (RSI) sufferers experience. A diverse group of RSI sufferers was selected for study, and in addition, a control group made up of people working in occupations with a high incidence of RSI was also surveyed. Demographic measures included age, sex, marital status, time since diagnosis, current and former occupation and period of time unemployed, as well as other details of working situations such as types of duties, hours of work and return to work schedules. Other areas of the questionnaire covered health measures - self assessed health and as against peers, pain indicators, and activities of daily living; measures of satisfaction with marriage and relationships, with family work and other social relationships; measures of psychological distress using Taylor's Manifest Anxiety scale; and indicators of stress through such events as career changes.