Restrictions on community activities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have caused people in developing countries to work, study, shop, and socialize from home. This policy result in increasing the use of devices such as cell phones, laptops, computers, or other electronic devices. Increased of gadgets utilization for a long time is likely affect body posture. The objectives of this study are to determine the knowledge level of productive age society related to the body posture while using gadgets before (pre-test) and after (post-test) education were given and to find out the relationship between habits when using gadgets and musculoskeletal complaints. This analytic observational study using primary data from pre-test and post-test questionnaires about body posture health. Data collection was carried out before and after the delivery of education regarding the health of body posture when using devices during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were analyzed statistically with the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, Chi-Square and Contingency Coefficients with the results in the form of percentage, mean, frequency and inferential statistics. The average score of pre-test and post-test were 7.06?2.39 and 7.14?2.57 for knowledge of body posture, respectively. There was no significant increase in knowledge of body posture 1.2% (p=0.777). Meanwhile, there were relationship between the upper arm and neck positions when using a device and complaints of shoulder (p = 0.026, C = 0.342) and neck pains (p=0.000, C=0.448), respectively. Approaching the community with education about posture is expected to increase knowledge so that it can change people's behavior to prevent fatigue when using gadget and decrease incidence of musculoskeletal complaints also promote healthy lifestyle.

COVID-19

developing countries

body posture

healthy lifestyle