Calidad de vida profesional y trastornos musculoesqueléticos en profesionales de Enfermería

Musculoskeletal disorders and occupational demands in nurses at a tertiary care hospital in Mexico City

“…A study carried out by Mansour (2014) found that 85% of the nurses reported MSD, with the back and ankles/feet being the most frequent (66% and 41%, respectively). Rodarte et al (2016) found that 42% of the nurses surveyed at a hospital in northern Mexico identified their discomfort to be mainly in the neck, spine and lower back.…”

“…However, several studies report higher prevalences in nurses. In a study in Zacatecas, Mexico, Rodarte, Araujo, Trejo, and González (2016) found that on average, 50% of nurses have musculoskeletal disorders. Ahumada and Noriega (2010) found a prevalence of 58% in nurses at a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City, similar to a study by Fernández et al (2014), where 57% of the respondents had MSDs.…”

“…Their daily activities are usually carried out while standing up, with constant hand movements (e.g., when recording body temperature and blood pressure, placing infusions or applying intramuscular injections). Their tasks also include moving patients, bathing or feeding them, which involve manual handling of loads that may be unsuitably heavy (Ahumada & Noriega, 2010;Rodarte et al, 2016).…”

Occupational Factors Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life in Nursing Professionals: A Multi-Centre Study

“…On the other hand, a positive aspect arising from helping patients is compassion satisfaction, the rewarding feeling that professionals experience when caring for others which encourages them to continue to do so [8]. These three constructs (burnout, compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction) are encompassed in the concept of Professional Quality of Life (PQoL), described by Stam [9], which refers to the feeling of well-being originating from the balance that individuals perceive between the burden of their profession and the psychological, organisational and interpersonal resources available to them in order to deal with this burden [10]. The ProQoL scale [7] is a useful tool for assessing the positive and negative effects of continued contact with emotionally difficult situations on healthcare professionals.…”

“…This results in reduced HRQoL, which, in turn, results in a reduction in the quality of patient care [17]. According to the existing literature, several components have been assessed and classified as unfavourable by professionals [18], indicating that they may have consequences for the professionals' perception of their HRQoL [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. These components include characteristics of their work environment (shift, employment status, setting), work-related stress [20], and sociodemographic factors affecting them, such as age, marital status, years of work experience and particularly gender [21].…”