Track: High School STEM Competition

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the general population to remain indoors, since the government ordered a national lockdown on March 15, 2020, because of the rising cases in the country. Amidst the lockdown, citizens were still required to do their jobs and studies at home. This resulted in numerous ergonomic problems and discomforts since not all Filipinos have a decent workstation in their respective houses. The conducted research observes the ergonomic- based risk factors with the perceived risk of COVID-19, specifically about the residents of Paranaque City. A study from Davis et al (2020) discusses the different setups of employees that were analyzed by experienced ergonomics, and it showed that some employees have very poor ergonomics such as having non-adjustable chairs and wrong positioning of monitors, etc. The researchers have applied a quantitative research design to gather the necessary data to prove the hypothesis. Online surveys were used to acquire data from the residents, the medium used for the research are social media applications. The data gathered suggests that most respondents are aged 20 and below, had attended high school, were primarily students, office clerks, etc. The results show that a significant number of residents from the Paranaque area feels at risk of getting COVID-19. It was also concluded that most of the respondents were concerned for their family’s safety. Research conducted by Mertens et al (2020) also shows that a large percentage of people are worried that their loved ones might get infected with COVID-19.