1. Walking at work: Maximum gait speed is related to work ability in hospital nursing staff
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Chad Aldridge, Jose Lugo-Vargas, Robert Rhodes, Kohl Kershisnik, Debra Creditt, Jorge Gonzalez-Mejia, Victor Tringali, and Jean Eby
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,nurse ,Walk Test ,Context (language use) ,Walking ,Nursing Staff, Hospital ,Spearman's rank correlation coefficient ,Occupational safety and health ,Young Adult ,work ability ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,occupation ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,hospital ,Occupational Health ,General fitness training ,Work (physics) ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Original Articles ,Middle Aged ,030210 environmental & occupational health ,Walking Speed ,Test (assessment) ,Gait speed ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Female ,Original Article ,Work ability ,Psychology ,gait speed ,human activities - Abstract
Objectives Like the concept of work ability in occupational health, gait speed is a measure of general fitness and can predict functional decline and morbidity. This is especially important when our care‐takers, i.e. nurses, show decline in fitness and become care‐receivers. The study aims to describe the demographics of hospital nurses in the context of gait speed and work ability as well as to determine the association between them. Methods Three‐hundred and twelve inpatient nurses and nursing assistants were sampled from a level 1 trauma and teaching hospital from several service lines and acuity levels. Spearman correlation tests were utilized to determine the relationship of gait speed and ratings of item 1 on the Work Ability Index (WAI) as well as Cochran‐Armitage test for linear trend of gait speed. Results Maximum gait speed has a significant positive association with work ability with a Rho coefficient of 0.217 (P
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- 2020
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