The Study of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Discomforts of Hospital Porters: Taking a Medical System in Central Taiwan as an Example

• Main Authors: Chih-Tsung Chen, 陳志聰
• Other Authors: An-Hsiang Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41698651181664339410

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 勞工關係學系暨研究所 === 102 === Hospital porters are vulnerable to various degrees of musculoskeletal injuries from delivering patients and the transferring objects because of their excessive lumbar loadings or fatigability which may arise from overuse of muscles, repetitive woks, and inappropriate postures. In addition, the hospital porters may also suffer from mental or physical fatigue, muscle aches for example, because of their moving around most of the time. Results of investigations from United States, European Union, and Taiwan have indicated that occupational musculoskeletal discomfort accounts a lot for labor insurance payment and the proportion is getting increasingly higher. However, there were limited studies on hospital porters’ work-related musculoskeletal discomforts. The purpose of this study is to evaluate characteristics and risk factors of hospital porters’ musculoskeletal discomforts by the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ). This study will recruit 84 hospital porters from a medical system in middle Taiwan, 73 of them from a medical center and 11 of them from a regional hospital, for face-to-face interview to increase response rate and accuracy. Fifty seven percent (57.56%) of hospital porters mentioned discomfort on various parts of body. The largest percentage, 73 (83.91%) people, mentioned discomfort in lower back, followed by 69 (79.31%) people with discomfort in right knee, and 68 (78.16%) in left shoulders. It is about 90.80 percents which are thought caused by all or partial work. Chi-square test, multi-logistic regression and multiple regression are used to analyze the uncomfortable part of muscle and skeleton.