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

Table 4

Factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders among nurses of district hospitals in Haiphong, 2017.

Independent variables		MSDs	Crude OR	Adjusted OR	p-value
		n (%)	OR IC 95%	OR IC 95%
Age	< 45	809 (74.4)	ref	ref	0.425
	≥ 45	72 (78.3)	1.2 0.7 – 2.1	1.3 0.7 – 2.2
Gender	male	136 (61.5)	ref	ref	<0.001
	female	745 (77.8)	2.2 1.6 – 3.0	2.1 1.5 – 2.9
Overweight	no	736 (75.4)	ref	ref	0.734
	yes	145 (71.4)	0.8 0.6 – 1.1	0.9 0.7 – 1.4
Working hours/week	<40 hours	6 (60)	ref	ref	0.417
	≥40 hours	875 (74.9)	2.0 0.6 – 7.1	1.7 0.5 – 6.5
History of musculoskeletal disease	no	756 (72.2)	ref	ref	<0.001
	yes	125 (94.7)	6.9 3.2 – 14.9	7.1 3.2 – 15.5
Work position	administrative	85 (76.6)	ref	ref	0.669
	clinical	796 (74.5)	0.9 0.6 – 1.4	1.1 0.7 – 1.9
Working > 10 hours/day	no regularly	548 (74)	ref	ref	0.168
	regularly	333 (76)	1.1 0.8 – 1.5	1.2 0.9 – 1.7
Working day/week	≤5 days	664 (74.9)	ref	ref	0.691
	>5 days	217 (74.1)	0.96 0.7 – 1.3	0.9 0.7 – 1.3
On duty	no	292 (78.1)	ref	ref	0.093
	yes	589 (73.2)	0.8 0.6 – 1.02	0.7 0.5 – 1.1
Anxiety	no	538 (71)	ref	ref	<0.001
	yes	343 (81.5)	1.8 1.3 – 2.4	1.8 1.3 – 2.4
Absenteeism	no	420 (69.3)	ref	ref	<0.001
	yes	461 (80.5)	1.8 1.4 – 2.4	1.7 1.3 – 2.3

Univariate analysis; multiple logistic regression; likelihood-ratio test.
MSDs: musculoskeletal disorders; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.
< 0.05.