Investigation of functional ankle instability in nurses and exploration of its preventive and protective methods / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the functional ankle instability in nurses,and provide references for increase preventive and protective awareness and establishment of preventive measures.Methods 100 nurses recruited from 10 wards of Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University were included into this study.Chinese version of the Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool (CAIT) was used to investigate the condition of functional ankle instability of these nurses.A self-designed questionnaire was used to investigate cognitive degree of ankle sprain prevention and treatment knowledge.Results Only 16％ of these nurses had no unstable problems in both of their two ankles.There were functional ankle instable problems in either single or both of the two ankles of the other 84％ nurses.And most of the nurses had little knowledge of how to prevent or treat ankle sprain properly.Conclusions There is a high rote of functional ankle instability in nurses.It is necessary to pay great attention to the prevention of ankle sprain and instability in nurses,which is of great importance to health and occupational safety assurance of nurses.