Manual Handling Workload and Musculoskeletal Discomfort in Nursing Personnel
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...Forty six studies, including the author's doctoral research (Menzel, 2001), were chosen for further review....
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...9 Johansson (1995) studied psychosocial work factors, physical work load, and associated musculoskeletal symptoms among home care workers and concluded that the highest relative risk was for a combination of poor psychosocial work environment and high physical workload....
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...Other studies (Fuortes et al, 1994; 6 Josephson & Vingard, 1998; Ryden, Molgaard, Bobbitt, & Conway, 1989; Smedley, Egger, Cooper, & Coggon, 1997; Stubbs et al., 1983; Venning, Walter, & Stitt, 1987) have concluded that job-related (not individual) characteristics were the major predictors of back…...
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...Larese & Fiorito (1994) found that units with low nurse-to-patient ratios had more back pain and injuries than units with higher ratios....
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