Of 106 participants recruited, 27 (25.5%) reported to be aware of the concept of ergonomics. This is higher than 2.1% recorded among medical personnel in a previous Nigerian study.[3] It is, however, lower than 35.5% and 44.0% recorded elsewhere among manufacturing workers and computer users, respectively.[15,16] Ergonomics has been applied over time to production processes in several industries such as manufacturing, oil, and construction industries[4,17,18] with great gain. Its application, however, in healthcare is quite new[19] and have not gained much grounds in developing countries of the world. This may explain the low level of ergonomic awareness reported among study participants. The finding in this study that male participants were significantly more aware of ergonomics has also been reported in another Nigerian study.[3] Being a female is often described as a “risk factor” for many MSDs because prevalence in the general population and in large groups of employees has been reported to be twice as high among women compared to men.[20] This may be due in part to generally low awareness level of the subject of ergonomics among the female gender.