Relación entre las condiciones laborales y la aparición de lesiones osteomusculares en los enfermeros del hospital San Rafael de Cáqueza Cundinamarca

Abstract

Safety and health at work has focused on the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries and occupational diseases that have been predominant in occupational environments, within them the health sector, especially in the nursing population due to the high biomechanical and psychosocial demands of their activities . The purpose of this work was to determine the relationship between working conditions and the appearance of musculoskeletal injuries in nurses at a hospital in the eastern region of the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. The research design was non-experimental, correlational, and cross-sectional. The participating population consisted of 64 nurses, of them 59 women and 5 men with active employment in the hospital. The participants were administered the global evaluation questionnaire of working conditions, demographic questionnaire and labor characteristics, and Nordic questionnaire. The data obtained were analyzed from the Chi Square correlation test. A significant relationship was identified between aspects of mental load with musculoskeletal symptoms in the neck and lower limbs; the physical environment and physical load with symptoms in upper limbs and back; psychosocial aspects with symptoms in the neck, upper limbs and back.