Need for recovery in ageing workers

Evaluation of workload among industrial workers with the Need for Recovery Scale

“…One possible reason for this is that more young workers were analyzed, with relatively few workers over 45 years of age. Despite the lack of association between age and level of need for recovery reported here, age is a factor to be considered in such assessments, since older workers tend to have higher rates of need for recovery 19,31 . Marital status was also not associated with NFR scores.…”

“…Regarding the methodological aspects of the scale, no NFR score cutoff points have been established in the literature for identifying workers at risk of developing health problems, although cutoffs of 45 and 50 have been suggested 23,31 . Another study used the distribution of data itself to identify workers most in need for recovery and found that workers with scores corresponding to the upper quartile were those that had the most fatigue 26 .…”

Need for recovery assessment among nursing professionals and call center operators

“…The correct NFR cutoff points for identifying fatigued workers is one important point for such investigation. Kiss and Meester [8] proposed a cutoff point of 50 for comparing older and younger workers regarding subjective fatigue. However, in a more recent study, the same group [7] also considered a cutoff point of 45 for public sector workers, based on an analysis of long-terms psychosomatic effects.…”

“…Another nonexplored issue among Brazilian workers is the relation between NFR scores and musculoskeletal symptoms. Kiss and Meester [8] found that musculoskeletal disorders are the most important factor in the higher levels of need for recovery for elderly workers (>45 years). Since musculoskeletal symptoms are a frequent complaint among workers, exploring the correlation between musculoskeletal complaints and fatigue could help clarify the relationship between these two frequent and critical issues among workers.…”

“…Therefore, the present study had three main objectives: (1) to describe the need for recovery among telemarketing call center operators and nursing professionals according to the cutoff points available in the literature -45 and 50, as suggested by Kiss et al [7] and Kiss and Meester [8], respectively; (2) to compare the need for recovery in these two groups and (3) to verify the association between NFR scores and the presence of musculoskeletal symptoms in both groups.…”