Musculoskeletal health climate is associated with musculoskeletal pain and sickness absence among workers: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate whether a musculoskeletal health climate, expressing the shared perceptions among workers concerning musculoskeletal health, is associated with number of musculoskeletal pain sites and sickness absence.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Six slaughterhouses from 2 companies in Denmark and 6 home-nursing units and 12 nursing homes from 1 municipality in Jutland, Denmark.

Participants

A total of 1092 slaughter house workers and 410 care workers completed an online questionnaire from February to October 2019.

Outcome measures

The exposure variable was musculoskeletal health climate assessed by two domains; (1) perceived management priority of musculoskeletal health measured by a modified subscale from the Nordic

SUBMITTER: Christiansen DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006822 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature