Risk assessment of the Manual Handling of Patients in remedial wards of Qazvin hospitals and its relationship with incidence of musculoskeletal disorders

Approximately one third of all reported work-related incidents are triggered by manual handling. The proportion of incidents associated with manual handling in health and social care is 38%. Lifting and transferring patients is the task that is most often cited as a cause of manual handling incidents and of back injury in the healthcare sector. The aim of this study is to determine the MAPO index for remedial hospital wards of Qazvin and considering its relationship with incidence and intensity of musculoskeletal disorders among servers whose main task is manual handling of patients. In this cross sectional study، 54 cases of servers from 23 wards of 4 Hospitals was considered. The data was collected using the demographic characteristic questionnaire، the Verbal pain intensity scale، the Nordic questionnaire and the MAPO checklist. Statistical Analysis of collected data was performed with SPSS 22. One year prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders was 75. 9% and this amount during performing this study was reported 53. 7%. Regarding to different levels of MAPO score، just 5. 5% of surveyed personnel were in safe zone. 18. 5% of them exposed to moderate risk of musculoskeletal disorders and 76 % were at high risk. Also prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders incidents and pain intensity had significantly associated with the MAPO index score. Regarding to association between MAPO index score and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders، to reducing incidences risk، improvement of MAPO index parameters to reducing its amount will be effective.