Study of the Physical Status of Emergency Ward's Personnel in Hospitals Affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences through REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) Method and Its Relation with Muscular and Skeletal Disorders in Qazvin Iran

Since occupational hazards are prevalent in emergency wards’ personnel due to occupational stresses and nonstandard work facilities and equipment and any negligence as to these personnel may reduce the quality of nosocomial services to improve the quality of the hygienic and therapeutic services provided by this ward the physical status of emergency wards’ personnel including physicians nurses workers and administrative personnel should be assessed as the first step. For this purpose it was the goal of this project to assess the physical status of the personnel of the emergency wards of hospitals affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences in Qazvin Iran and discover the relation it had with muscular-skeletal disorders. This study was a deh1ive-analytical one. The participants included all personnel of the emergency wards of Shahid Rajaei Hospital and Bouali Hospital and were selected from the four educational hospitals affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. The occupational-bodily status of the subjects was first assessed by Rapid Entire Body Assessment Method. To study the muscular-skeletal disorders Nordic’s Standard Questionnaire was used. Finally the obtained data were analyzed by SPSS/win 16 software and statistical tests including Chi-Square and Coefficient Correlation Tests. In this study the maximum amount of prevalent pain was found to be 51% occupational accidents (6.7%) and the longest period of pain was found to exist in the waist area. In most cases “pain in the neck” was the factor limiting the work activities and it was also the reason for most cases of absenteeism and referring to physician during the last year. The body status score of most personnel was in the range of 4 to 7 according to REBA method. The risk proved to be at an average level and a corrective action in this regard seemed to be essential (71%). Ultimately the results revealed that no significant relation existed between REBA score of each member of the body and the pain felt in the same body part (P>0.05). The total REBA scores of each individual proved to have a significant reverse relation with the education level while it had a significant direct relation with stress intensity (P