Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics, Bellaterra, Spain.
Department of Economics, Gebze Technical University, Gebze, Turkey.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Sep 26;13:e59900. doi: 10.2196/59900.
Digital technologies have penetrated most workplaces. However, it is unclear how such digital technologies affect the physical health of older workers.
This scoping review aims to examine and summarize the evidence from scientific literature concerning the impact of digital technology on the physical health of older workers.
This scoping review will be conducted following recommendations outlined by Levac et al and will adhere to the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis extension for Scoping Reviews) guidelines for reporting. Peer-reviewed papers written in English will be searched in the following databases: MEDLINE, Cochrane, ProQuest, Web of Science, Scopus, APA PsycInfo, and ERIH PLUS. The web-based systematic review platform Covidence will be used to create a data extraction template. It will cover the following items: study and participant characteristics, health measures, digital tool characteristics and usage, and research findings. Following the Population, Concept, and Context (PCC) framework, our review will focus on studies involving older workers aged 50 years or older, any form of digital technology (including teleworking and the use of digital tools at work), and how digital technologies affect physical health (such as vision loss, musculoskeletal disorders, and migraines). Studies that focus only on mental health will be excluded. Study selection based on title and abstract screening (first stage), full-text review (second stage), and data extraction (third stage) will be performed by a group of researchers, whereby each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 people. Any conflict regarding the inclusion or exclusion of a study and the data extraction will be resolved by discussion between the researchers who evaluated the papers; a third researcher will be involved if consensus is not reached.
A preliminary search of MEDLINE, Epistemonikos, Cochrane, PROSPERO, and JBI Evidence Synthesis was conducted, and no current or ongoing systematic reviews or scoping reviews on the topic were identified. The results of the study are expected in April 2025.
Our scoping review will seek to provide an overview of the available evidence and identify research gaps regarding the effect of digital technology and the use of digital tools in the work environment on the physical health of older workers.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/59900.
数字技术已经渗透到大多数工作场所。然而，目前尚不清楚这些数字技术如何影响老年工人的身体健康。
本范围综述旨在审查和总结科学文献中关于数字技术对老年工人身体健康影响的证据。
本范围综述将按照 Levac 等人提出的建议进行，并遵循 PRISMA-ScR（系统评价和荟萃分析扩展的首选报告项目）报告指南。将在以下数据库中搜索英文同行评审论文：MEDLINE、Cochrane、ProQuest、Web of Science、Scopus、APA PsycInfo 和 ERIH PLUS。将使用基于网络的系统评价平台 Covidence 创建一个数据提取模板。它将涵盖以下项目：研究和参与者特征、健康测量、数字工具特征和使用以及研究结果。根据人群、概念和背景（PCC）框架，我们的综述将重点关注研究 50 岁或以上的老年工人、任何形式的数字技术（包括远程工作和在工作中使用数字工具）以及数字技术如何影响身体健康（如视力丧失、肌肉骨骼疾病和偏头痛）的研究。仅关注心理健康的研究将被排除在外。基于标题和摘要筛选（第一阶段）、全文审查（第二阶段）和数据提取（第三阶段）进行研究选择，每篇论文将由至少 2 名研究人员进行审查。如果对研究的纳入或排除以及数据提取存在任何争议，将由评估论文的研究人员进行讨论解决；如果无法达成共识，则将涉及第三名研究人员。
初步搜索了 MEDLINE、Epistemonikos、Cochrane、PROSPERO 和 JBI 证据综合，没有发现关于该主题的当前或正在进行的系统评价或范围综述。预计研究结果将于 2025 年 4 月公布。
我们的范围综述将试图提供关于数字技术和在工作环境中使用数字工具对老年工人身体健康影响的现有证据概述，并确定研究空白。
国际注册报告标识符（IRRID）：PRR1-10.2196/59900。
