Relationship between nurse's occupational musculoskeletal injury and presenteeism / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the occupational musculoskeletal injury of nurses in a thirdgrade and A-level general hospital in Zhengzhou,and analyze the relationship between occupational musculoskeletal injury and presenteeism.Methods 460 nurses were surveyed with questionnaires by convenience sampling,including nurses' demographic data,Nordic Standardized Questionnaires and Work Limitations Questionnaire.Results The annual incidence rate of OMSI in nursing staff was 82.38％.The parts of body which had high annual incidence rate of nurses' OMSI were lower back,neck and shoulder.The rates of presenteeism for no OMSI,one part OMSI and two or more parts OMSI were 35.14％,52.60％ and 59.68％.The scores of work efficiency decrease were (2.02±1.26),(4.67±2.53),(7.31±3.42).Conclusions Nurses' occupational musculoskeletal injury can result in presenteeism.The more serious occupational musculoskeletal injury is,the higher incidence rate of presenteeism,the more critical the presenteeism is.