Fouad, Dalia Mohamed
Mahfouz, Marwa Mahmoud
Mohamed, Mohammed Mostafa
Elzanaty, Mahmoud Yassin
Abd El-Hafeez, Tarek
Funding for this research was provided by:
Minia University
Article History
Received: 25 March 2025
Accepted: 15 July 2025
First Online: 25 July 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were by the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This study employed a crosssectional design to examine workrelated musculoskeletal disorders among faculty members at universities in AlMinia Governorate, Egypt. Conducted between June and December 2024, the study protocol received ethical approval from Deraya University’s Institutional Review Board (Approval No. DCSR01002419). This investigation pursued two primary objectives assessing current prevalence rates of musculoskeletal disorders among academic staff and developing classification models for pain assessment. The methodology incorporated both populationlevel epidemiological analysis and individualized risk classification through standardized data collection procedures.