Influence of Risk Perception on Task and Contextual Performance: A Case of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Nurses

Occupational low back pain prevention capacity of nurses in China: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Introduction

Nurses have a high prevalence of occupational low back pain, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has increased the nurses' workloads. It has brought a huge burden on nurses and their professional development. Nurses' occupational low back pain prevention capacity is the logical starting point and core of interventions to prevent its occurrence. To date, there is no study investigating it with a scientific scale. Therefore, a multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted to explore the current status of nurses' capacity in occupational low back pain prevention and its influencing factors in China.

Methods

Using a two-stage, purposive and convenience mixed sampling method, 1331 nurses from 8 hospitals across 5 provinces (Hubei, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, and Sichuan) in the southern, western, northern, and central areas of mainland China were involved in this study. The demographic questionnaire and occupational low back pain prevention behavior questionnaire were used for data collection. The descriptive analysis, univariate analysis, and multiple stepwise linear regression were used for data analysis.

Results

The results showed that the occupational low back pain prevention behavior questionnaire score was 89.00 (80.00, 103.00) [M (Q1, Q3)], which indicated that nurses' ability was at a moderate level. Participation in prevention training before, perceived stress at work, and working hours per week were predictors for nurses' occupational low back pain prevention capacity.

Discussion

To improve nurses' prevention ability, nursing managers should organize various training programs, strengthen regulations to reduce nurses' workload and stress, provide a healthy workplace, and offer incentives to motivate nurses.

An integrative fuzzy Delphi Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) study on the risk perception influencing factors

PURPOSE

Risk perception is one of the factors that can guide human behavior in the workplace. The resent study aimed to identify the most important factors affecting risk perception.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

This cross-sectional study had three phases. In the first, factors affecting risk perception were extracted based on librarian resources and studies. Then, using the fuzzy-Delphi method and based on the expert's opinion, the most important factors affecting risk perception were identified. Finally, using the fuzzy-DEMATEL technique and relying on the opinions of experts, the relationships between these factors were analyzed and their role as cause or effect was determined.

RESULTS

Eleven variables were identified as the most important factors influencing risk perception, among which safety knowledge, quality, and quantity of safety training, and safety climate had the greatest effect on risk perception with defuzzified scores of 0.826, 0.817, and 0.808, respectively. Seven of the variables had the role of cause and four of them had the role of effect. Experience of Accident along with safety climate had the highest interaction with other variables.

CONCLUSION

Precise investigation of risk perception influencing factors can play an important role in improving risk perception and safe behaviors.