Musculoskeletal Disorders: Prevalence and Associated Factors among District Hospital Nurses in Haiphong, Vietnam

Table 3

Absenteeism pattern during the last 12 months among nurses in Haiphong, 2017.

N= 1179		n (%)	Mean	Median	Min-max	SD
Absenteeism		573 (48.6)
Number of absence			3.1	2	0 - 30	3.7
Total of absence (day)			24.7	5	1 -210	52.8
Cause of absence	long-term illness (over 2 weeks)	5 (0.9)
	short-term illness (less than 2 weeks)	49 (8.6)
	occupational disease	3 (0.5)
	occupational accident	0 (0)
	traffic accident	11 (1.9)
	others (maternity leave, house work…)	516 (90.1)
Working conditions lead to absent		37 (6.5)
Desire to change positions or change jobs	never	884 (75)
	rarely	114 (9.7)
	sometimes	165 (14)
	regularly	10 (0.9)
	always	6 (0.5)