J Clin Res Paramed Sci. 2019 December; 8(2):e88428. Published online 2019 November 4. doi: 10.5812/jcrps.88428. Research Article Comparison the Effect of Educational Interventions Based on Brochure and Virtual Education in Compliance Principles of Ergonomic Operating Room Technologist of Iran University of Medical Sciences Sedighe Hanani 1 , Samane Ghasemi 1, * , Yahya Safari 2 and Mahboobe Rasuoli 3 1 Operating Room Department, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 3 Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran * Corresponding author: Operating Room Department, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Email: samane.ghasemi91@gmail.com Received 2018 December 30; Revised 2019 September 11; Accepted 2019 September 15. Abstract Background: High prevalence rate of musculoskeletal disorders and their control among personnel is one of the most important concerns for ergonomics experts across the globe. Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders is among national priorities of many countries. Objectives: This study aimed to determine and compare the effect of educational interventions based on brochure and virtual education in compliance with principles of ergonomics in operating room technologist. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted with experimental groups (brochures and virtual education) and a control group with pre-test and post-test design. One hundred operating room technologists of Iran University of Medical Sciences were selected with simple random sampling method and assigned randomly to three groups. Data were collected by REBA checklist, and analyzed using Wilcoxon and U Mann-Whitney non-parametric tests in SPSS V.20. Results: The results showed that statistically significant differences among the three groups of control, brochures and virtual (P = 0.0001). Education was more effective in the virtual group in comparison to the brochure group (P = 0.0002). There was a statistically significant difference between control and brochure groups (P = 0.0001). Conclusions: This study showed the effectiveness of teaching interventions based on brochure and virtual methods in compliance with ergonomics principles, therefore, it is recommended to use these methods instead of conventional methods to prevent com- plications of musculoskeletal disorders. Keywords: Virtual Education, Medical Education, Ergonomics Principles, Operating Room 1. Background Working has an essential role in social and economic development of a country while work environment and conditions could cause work-related physical disorders (1). Furthermore, the personnel of the medical departments are also exposed to health hazards like any other occupa- tion (2). Various harmful factors exist in the work environ- ment that may cause fatigue, burnout, illness, and waste of time, energy and expenses. In the meantime, muscu- loskeletal disorders are the most common hazards and in- juries related to the work environment (3). Musculoskele- tal disorders are any type of tissue injury to the supportive structures that affects movement, and has a documented causal relation to the ergonomic risk factors (4, 5). Epi- demiologic studies have also shown evidence regarding the relationship between occupational factors and mus- culoskeletal disorders (6). One study has mentioned the significant increase in the rate of these disorders since 1980 (7). Furthermore, these disorders are the main cause of work-related disability in the developing countries be- cause most of the adults spend half of their wake time at work environments and are consequently affected by vari- ous factors there (8-10). Operating room environment and the nature of surgery poses various risk factors such as physical, psychological, biological and chemical risk fac- tors to the staff (11). Review of the literature showed that most of the studies concerned nurses. Few studies have ex- amined occupational disorders in more important groups Copyright © 2019, Journal of Clinical Research in Paramedical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.