RESEARCH ARTICLE
Productivity Loss and Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Brazilian Presenteeism: A Cross-sectional Study
Bruno da Silva Santos1, Juliano Bortolini1, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa2, *, Denise de Andrade3, Marília Duarte Valim1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2023Volume: 17
E-location ID: e187443462302010
Publisher ID: e187443462302010
DOI: 10.2174/18744346-v17-230223-2022-78
Article History:
Received Date: 14/7/2022Revision Received Date: 29/11/2022
Acceptance Date: 26/1/2023
Electronic publication date: 06/03/2023
Collection year: 2023
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
The work has been brought to nursing professionals, denoting an increase in illness and consequent decrease in productivity.
Objective:
This study aims to verify the relationship between productivity and the presence of musculoskeletal symptoms in presenteeism.
Methods:
This is a cross-sectional and analytical study conducted with 305 Nursing workers from an emergency hospital in the Brazilian Midwest region. For data collection, four self-applied instruments were used, namely: the Sociodemographic Work and Health Conditions Questionnaire (QSCTS), the Stanford Presenteeism Scale (SPS-6), the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ), and the Brazilian version of the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ), Nordic Musculoskeletal Symptom Questionnaire (QNSO). The “presenteeism” and “presenteeism degree” dependent variables were related to the independent variables using the logistic regression model.
Results:
Presenteeism was identified in 134 (43.8%) workers. Overall productivity loss was 8.8%. Regarding the relationship between presenteeism and the occurrence of musculoskeletal symptoms, workers with problems in the upper back, knees, and neck in the last year were 6.5, 2.7, and 2.2 more likely to be presenteeism, respectively.
Conclusion:
The study confirmed the relationship between greater productivity losses and the incidence of musculoskeletal symptoms with presenteeism events in the Nursing team.
