Work-related musculoskeletal risks associated with nurses and nursing assistants handling overweight and obese patients: A literature review

Choi, Sang D.; Brings, Kathryn

doi:10.3233/wor-152222

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“…[62] Some studies found that musculoskeletal disorders have been consistently associated with patient-handling among nurses. [63,64] The highest rates of non-fatal occupational musculoskeletal disorders have been reported among nurses than in any other healthcare professionals. [65] However, it is recommended that healthcare organizations should provide a healthful working schedule that is required to prevent the risk of musculoskeletal disorders among nurses, they also should provide educational programs which consider Good Body Mechanics by an informal policy.…”

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The impact of 12-hour shifts on nurses’ health, wellbeing, and job satisfaction: A systematic review

Banakhar

2017

JNEP

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Objective: This review was conducted to investigate the impact of applying 12-hour shifts in comparison to 8-hour shifts on nurses' health wellbeing and job satisfaction. Methods: MEDLINE, CINHALE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Web of Science, and SCOPUS databases were searched, covering the period between 1980 to 2017. Studies were included if they concerned nurses working for 12-hour shifts in comparison to 8-hour shifts in hospital settings, based on observational/surveys studies. Results: In the yielded 12 studies, 3 studies reported that 12-hour shifts had an impact on nurses' health and wellbeing, such as cognitive anxiety, musculo-skeletal disorders, sleep disturbance, and role stress; however, there was no significant difference between 12-and 8-hour shifts with digestive and cardiovascular disorders, psychological ill health, and somatic anxiety. Of the 4 studies measuring the impact of 12-hour shifts on fatigue, three studies showed that the nurses experienced more fatigue in the 12-hour shifts in comparison to 8-hour shifts; nevertheless, one study did not find a significant difference in fatigue and critical thinking performances between 12-and 8-hour shifts. Nine of the 12 studies measured job satisfaction in 12-and 8-hour shifts, 5 studies showed a greater dissatisfaction regarding 12-hour shifts, while 3 studies found that the nurses were more satisfied with 12-hour shifts than with 8-hour shifts; but one study pointed out that there was a difference between the two shifts considering pay and professional status. Conclusions: The findings of the review suggest that 12-hour shifts resulted in negative health concerns and job dissatisfaction; however, there is a need for more empirical evidence to support this.

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The impact of 12-hour shifts on nurses’ health, wellbeing, and job satisfaction: A systematic review

Banakhar

2017

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“…The prevalence of MSDs may vary between 33.0% and 88.0% among nurses all over the world [4,7,12]. The frequency of disorders was found 84.0% and 76.2% in studies performed on nurses in Estonia and Taiwan, respectively.…”

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“…Epidemiological studies have demonstrated MSDs is a main occupational health problem in nurses [5,6]. MSDs can have a rigorous consequence on quality of life and may result in work constraints, absenteeism or even the want to change jobs [7]. Nurses are the main hospital workers in frequent close contacts with patients and they are interacting not only with patients but also with instruments and environment in hospital.…”

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Evaluation of the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in nurses: A systematic review

Soylar¹,

Özer²

2018

Med-Science

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Nurses exposure many risk factors in the hospital setting. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) is a common health problem between work related disabilities and injuries in nurses. The aim of this review was to examine the prevalence of MSDs in nurses and also summarize risk factors, outcomes, solutions. An electronic search was conducted in Pub Med in January 2017. Publications in the last ten years were researched using the key words: "Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders" and "Nurses". The initial electronic search identified 111 papers. Some articles were excluded since they were not related to our study topic (7 articles were review, 15 of them were related to the roles of nurses in some musculoskeletal disorders, 14 articles were about nurses who working outside the hospital or new graduated/student, 28 articles addressed work related other health problems, 3 of them were related to hospital ergonomics and risk factors and 7 articles were interventions studies). Three papers were not reached to full text or abstract. The total number of remaining articles was 34 and all of them were included the study. It was considered that reported musculoskeletal disorders in nurses were limited to the past 12 months. It had been found that the prevalence of MSDs varied between 33.0% and 88.0%. The most commonly affected body regions were lower back, shoulder, neck, knees, wrists/hands. Lower back pain complaints were found to vary between 49.0% and 84.0%. The findings indicated that the work related musculoskeletal disorders associated with cumulative trauma and repetitive tasks included: lifting, transferring or repositioning, prolonged standing and also awkward postures (stooping, bending and reaching). These work-related health problems in nurses were significantly associated with age, gender, body mass index, ward, shift working and working in a hospital. Studies showed that musculoskeletal disorders were most seen among the operation room nurses and intensive care nurses. Also, MSDs were found to be the main causes of absenteeism, demanding a change of duty or job and visiting a physician. The MSDs was more prevalent occupational health problem among nurses. The prevalence of MSDs was associated with both demographic characteristics of nurses and hospitals' organizational factors. It was confirmed that making ergonomics interventions could improve the working environment in the hospital.

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“…We also identified an overall prevalence of MSD as 97%, which was higher than the prevalence of MSD reported by previous studies, conducted at different settings. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Different body sites were taken into consideration in the analysis and we observed neck, shoulder, upper back and lower back as the most prominent areas which are affected, but among the four only two body sites, the neck and shoulder demonstrated statistical significance. However, according to Yan P et al (2017) the most commonly affected regions were lower back, neck,shoulder, and back, with an annual prevalence of 62.71%, 59.77%, 49.66%, and 39.50%, respectively.…”

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Musculoskeletal disorder: Risk factors and coping strategies among nurses

Salama¹,

Eleshenamie²

2018

JNEP

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Background: It is established that nurses suffer from varying degrees of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) at different regions of their body, which results in frequent loss of work days. Aim of study is to identify the risk factors for developing musculoskeletal disorder and to determine the coping strategies to reduce their frequency. Methods: This study was conducted in the Outpatient Departments (OPDs), intensive care units of University Hospital and also from the nursing schoolof the Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria, Egypt. Results: A high proportion of nurses reported MSD (99.0%) during the last year. Also during their whole careers at one or the other body regions, with the shoulder (97.0%) and Neck (95.0%) being the most commonly affected. Nurses with more than two pregnancies and usage of computer for more than two years were those with the most perceived risk factors for MSD. The usage of different part of body by the nurses as a coping mechanism during the nursing procedures (34.0%) and change of posture (30.0%) were the top two statistically significant coping strategies. Conclusions: The study confirms very high prevalence of MSD among the nursing staff and it was prominent at some specific body parts, of which neck and shoulder were the most affected.

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Work-related musculoskeletal risks associated with nurses and nursing assistants handling overweight and obese patients: A literature review

Cited by 127 publications

References 26 publications

The impact of 12-hour shifts on nurses’ health, wellbeing, and job satisfaction: A systematic review

The impact of 12-hour shifts on nurses’ health, wellbeing, and job satisfaction: A systematic review

Evaluation of the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in nurses: A systematic review

Musculoskeletal disorder: Risk factors and coping strategies among nurses

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