| Abstract [eng] |
Ergonomic Work Conditions of Healthcare Workers and Their Correlation with Health Assessment. Background: There are only little data about ergonomical work conditions of healthcare workers and their association with health assessment. There are missing data about ergonomic work conditions and relationship with health condition among Lithuanian physiotherapists, which work is associated with high physical workload and akward postures. Aim: To estimate ergonomic work conditions and their correlation with health assessment among healthcare workers. Objectives: To estimate ergonomic work conditions among healthcare workers. To evaluate how healthcare workers assess their health condition. To estimate ergonomic work conditions and their correlation with health assessment. Methods: : The data was collected by anonymous questionnaire survey method. The analysis included of 458 healthcare workers who work in Vilnius city. The subjects filled out a compound questionnaire including 36 questions that described information about healthcare workers (sex, age, position, working posture, physical workload, concentration of attention while working, lighting, temperature, floor covering plains, participating in periodical health examinations, health assessment, back, shoulder, upper arm, forearm, wrist and hand pain, eyes fatigue, physical activity). The data were analysed using SPSS (version 22.0) and Winpepi (version 11.39) softwares. For nominal and ordinal analysis were used Pearson chi square, Mann-Whitney and Kruskall-Wallis tests. Association between ordinal data included Spreaman correlation. Association between binominal data included odds ratio. Results: 58,2 % of healthcare workers works in akward posture. Mostly physiotherapists and nursing aids has to bend over the waist involuntary. 51,1 % of workers lifts weights heavier than alouded. Mostly healthcare workers felt back, shoulders pain and eye fatigue in past 12 months. 48,6 % assess their health middling. Healthcare workers who work in standing position more often felt back, trunk, upper arm, forearm, wrist and hand pain. Those workers who work in sitting position more often felt eyes fatigue. Conclusion: Those healthcare workers who work under inapriopriate ergonomic work conditions more often felt muscosceletal pain and assess worse their health. It is important to improve and regulary evaluate ergonomic work conditions in healthcare institutions and assess their effect for health condition. |
