Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care Nurses
Nurses have always been considered as a unique working group because of the physically and mentally demanding tasks they bear at work. Such a working condition exposes them to a high risk of fatigue, which could influence their work ability. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationshi...
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doaj-f558fac2007246e9ad4cc39e9cc9d2752020-12-07T08:46:05ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesInternational Journal of Occupational Hygiene2008-51092008-54352018-08-01103Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care NursesEHSAN GAROSI0SHARIF NAJAFI1ADEL MAZLOUMI2MOJTABA KHOSRAVI DANESH3MASOUMEH ABEDI4AJA University of Medical Sciences, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tehran, Iran. AND Tehran University Medical Sciences, Department of Occupational Health, Tehran, IranAJA University of Medical Sciences, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tehran, IranTehran University Medical Sciences, Department of Occupational Health, Tehran, IranTehran University Medical Sciences, Department of Occupational Health, Tehran, IranPhD Candidate, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia Nurses have always been considered as a unique working group because of the physically and mentally demanding tasks they bear at work. Such a working condition exposes them to a high risk of fatigue, which could influence their work ability. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between work ability index (WAI) and fatigue of critical care nurses in a military hospital. In this descriptive and cross-sectional study, 101 nurses (71 females and 30 males) of critical care units filled out both the Persian version of WAI and nurses’ fatigue questionnaires. The nurses were selected from three general hospitals of Tehran by cluster sampling method. The Pearson correlation test was used for investigating the relationship between two quantitative variables, and all the statistical analyses were performed by SPSS v. 21 software. The nurses’ average age was 24.5 years old (±SD=±3.6), and the mean of work experience was 9 years (±SD=±4.13). The mean work ability of the nurses was 40.01 (±SD=±4.05), indicating “good work ability”. Fatigue was found in 46.19% of the participants, and the nurses’ fatigue was mainly of mental type (29.8%). There was a significant negative correlation (-0.57) between the scores of WAI and total fatigue (p < 0.001). The negative correlation between WAI and fatigue shows that WAI and fatigue score could be a good predictor of health and quality of work life. Identifying the influential factors of nurses’ work ability and fatigue would help to improve the work condition of critical care nurses. https://ijoh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijoh/article/view/395ErgonomicsFatigueNursing Work ability |
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EHSAN GAROSI SHARIF NAJAFI ADEL MAZLOUMI MOJTABA KHOSRAVI DANESH MASOUMEH ABEDI Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care Nurses International Journal of Occupational Hygiene Ergonomics Fatigue Nursing Work ability |
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Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care Nurses |
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Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care Nurses |
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Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care Nurses |
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Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care Nurses |
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Relationship between Work Ability Index and Fatigue among Iranian Critical Care Nurses |
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relationship between work ability index and fatigue among iranian critical care nurses |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
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International Journal of Occupational Hygiene |
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2008-5109 2008-5435 |
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Nurses have always been considered as a unique working group because of the physically and mentally demanding tasks they bear at work. Such a working condition exposes them to a high risk of fatigue, which could influence their work ability. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between work ability index (WAI) and fatigue of critical care nurses in a military hospital. In this descriptive and cross-sectional study, 101 nurses (71 females and 30 males) of critical care units filled out both the Persian version of WAI and nurses’ fatigue questionnaires. The nurses were selected from three general hospitals of Tehran by cluster sampling method. The Pearson correlation test was used for investigating the relationship between two quantitative variables, and all the statistical analyses were performed by SPSS v. 21 software. The nurses’ average age was 24.5 years old (±SD=±3.6), and the mean of work experience was 9 years (±SD=±4.13). The mean work ability of the nurses was 40.01 (±SD=±4.05), indicating “good work ability”. Fatigue was found in 46.19% of the participants, and the nurses’ fatigue was mainly of mental type (29.8%). There was a significant negative correlation (-0.57) between the scores of WAI and total fatigue (p < 0.001). The negative correlation between WAI and fatigue shows that WAI and fatigue score could be a good predictor of health and quality of work life. Identifying the influential factors of nurses’ work ability and fatigue would help to improve the work condition of critical care nurses.
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