Psychosocial risk factors for musculoskeletal symptoms among women working in geriatric care

Gunnarsdóttir, Hólmfríður K.; Rafnsdóttir, Guðbjœrg Linda; Helgadóttir, Berglind; Tómasson, Kristinn

doi:10.1002/ajim.10279

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“…After back pain, stress is the most reported workrelated health problem in Europe (Parent-Thirion, Macías, Hurley, & Vermeylen, 2007). Both stress and backache has been associated with poor psychosocial work environment (Gunnarsdóttir, Rafnsdóttir, Helgadóttir, & Tomasson, 2003;Feveile, Jensen, & Burr, 2002).…”

Section: Stress Recovery and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working time arrangements and social consequences – What do we know?

Albertsen¹,

Kauppinen²,

Grimsmo³

et al. 2008

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Section: Stress Recovery and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working time arrangements and social consequences – What do we know?

Albertsen¹,

Kauppinen²,

Grimsmo³

et al. 2008

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“…Bongers and colleagues (1993) for example have emphasised the link between psychosocial factors at work and musculoskeletal disease, Armstrong et al (1993) developed a conceptual model for work-related neck and upper-limb disorders and the 'Panel on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace (2001) proposed a broad conceptual model, which covers workplace-related factors like physical load, the organisational and social context, personal factors such as biomechanical loading, internal tolerances (including psychological states) and several outcomes such as pain, discomfort and disability for different localisations. The link between psychosocial factors and MSD has often been analysed and discussed (Carayon et al, 1999, Davis and Heaney, 2000, Gunnarsdottir et al, 2003, Rugulies et al, 2004, Violante et al, 2004. Nowadays, it is widely accepted that both physical (e.g., lifting and bending) and psychological exposure (e.g., stress at work) at work are associated with back pain and disability.…”

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confidence: 99%

Back or neck-pain-related disability of nursing staff in hospitals, nursing homes and home care in seven countries—results from the European NEXT-Study

Simon

Tackenberg

Nienhaus

et al. 2008

International Journal of Nursing Studies

117

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Background: Musculoskeletal disorders are a widespread affliction in the nursing profession. Back or neck-pain-related disability of nursing staff is mainly attributed to physical and psychosocial risk factors. Objectives: To investigate which-and to what extent-physical and psychosocial risk factors are associated with neck/ back-pain-related disability in nursing, and to assess the role of the type of health care institution (hospitals, nursing homes and home care institutions) within different countries in this problem. Design: Cross-sectional secondary analysis of multinational data of nurses and auxiliary staff in hospitals (n ¼ 16,770), nursing homes (n ¼ 2140) and home care institutions (n ¼ 2606) in seven countries from the European NEXT-Study. Methods: Multinomial logistic regression analysis with raw models for each factor and mutually adjusted with all analysed variables. Results: Analysis of the pooled data revealed effort-reward imbalance as the predominant risk factor for disability in all settings (odds ratios for high disability by effort-reward ratio: hospital 5. 05 [4.30-5.93]; nursing home 6.52 [4.04-10.52] and home care 6. 4 [3.83-10.70] [after mutual adjustment of psychosocial and physical risk factors]). In contrast, physical exposure to lifting and bending showed only limited associations with odds ratios below 1.6; the availability and use of lifting aids was-after mutual adjustment-not or only marginally associated with disability. These findings were basically confirmed in separate analyses for all seven countries and types of institutions. Conclusions: The findings show a pronounced association between psychosocial factors and back or neck-pain-related disability. Further research should consider psychosocial factors and should take the setting where nurses work into account. r

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“…Physical work-related risk factors for neck/shoulder and back symptoms among these workers include standing in forward-bent, twisted and awkward postures and lifting heavy loads [2,4,6,10], as well as patient handling tasks involving reaching, pushing and pulling with outstretched arms/shoulders [11]. A high psychological workload, high quantitative demands, time pressure, low job control and job dissatisfaction are among the suggested psychosocial risk factors for neck, shoulder and back pain and pain-related disability [12][13][14].…”

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Psychological and Physical Workload and the Development of Musculoskeletal Symptoms Among Female Elderly-Care Workers

Larsman¹,

Hanse

2008

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Abstract:The aim of the present study was to investigate the relations between psychological and physical workload and musculoskeletal neck, shoulder and upper back symptoms. In this longitudinal two-phase cohort study a survey was conducted among non-managerial female elderly-care workers (n = 553). The analyses were based on respondents who were considered free from the respective symptoms at initial ratings, resulting in study samples of n = 230 for neck symptoms, n = 211 for shoulder symptoms, n = 400 for upper back symptoms, and n = 204 for low back symptoms. The results indicate that psychological workload is related to the development of musculoskeletal (neck and upper back) symptoms measured at an 18-month follow-up, both in itself and in combination with physical workload. The most important finding was that psychological workload shows significant temporal relations to neck and upper back symptoms.

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Psychosocial risk factors for musculoskeletal symptoms among women working in geriatric care

Cited by 36 publications

References 31 publications

Working time arrangements and social consequences – What do we know?

Working time arrangements and social consequences – What do we know?

Back or neck-pain-related disability of nursing staff in hospitals, nursing homes and home care in seven countries—results from the European NEXT-Study

Psychological and Physical Workload and the Development of Musculoskeletal Symptoms Among Female Elderly-Care Workers

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