Lee Kyung Jae, Kim Joo Ja, Kim Jeung Im
Department of Occupational Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Korea.
Korean J Women Health Nurs. 2011 Dec;17(5):484-490. doi: 10.4069/kjwhn.2011.17.5.484.
This study was aimed to investigate the impact of job stress on low back symptoms among Clinical nurses (CNs) in university hospital.
A total of 322 CNs employed in a hospital in Seoul were interviewed by a well-trained interviewer using the structured questionnaire. Data collected for this study includes demographics, social and work characteristics, low back symptoms, and job stress. To test the impact of job stress on low back symptoms, we used multiple logistic regression analysis.
The prevalence of low back symptoms was 25.8% in this study. Low back symptoms differed significantly by factors, such as physical work burden, past history of injury and work duration. Also low back symptoms differed significantly by organizational system among independent variables of job stress. In a multiple logistic regression analysis, the odds ratio of organizational system to low back symptoms was 2.07 after an adjustment.
This study showed that organizational system among job stress was a significant variable in explaining low back symptoms. We suggest the improvement of organizational system category as a preventive strategy for low back pain in CNs working in hospital.
本研究旨在调查大学医院临床护士工作压力对腰背部症状的影响。
由一名训练有素的访谈者使用结构化问卷对首尔一家医院的322名临床护士进行访谈。本研究收集的数据包括人口统计学、社会和工作特征、腰背部症状及工作压力。为检验工作压力对腰背部症状的影响，我们采用了多元逻辑回归分析。
本研究中腰背部症状的患病率为25.8%。腰背部症状因体力工作负担、既往受伤史和工作时长等因素存在显著差异。在工作压力的自变量中，腰背部症状在组织系统方面也存在显著差异。在多元逻辑回归分析中，调整后组织系统与腰背部症状的比值比为2.07。
本研究表明，工作压力中的组织系统是解释腰背部症状的一个重要变量。我们建议改善组织系统类别，作为医院临床护士预防腰痛的一项策略。
