| Occupational level | NL | BE | DE | FIN | FR | GB | IT | N | POL | SLK | Total | |
| Back- and neck-pain-related disability score (N = 30,144) | ||||||||||||
| Head nurses | Low |
| 65.1% | 51.0% | 67.0% | 62.2% | 75.2% | 58.4% |
| 46.6% | 35.0% | 58.8% |
| Medium |
| 22.7% | 22.1% | 19.0% | 22.1% | 14.3% | 19.2% |
| 28.7% | 31.8% | 21.6% | |
| High |
| 12.2% | 26.9% | 14.1% | 15.7% | 10.6% | 22.4% |
| 24.7% | 33.2% | 19.6% | |
| Number |
| 370 | 614 | 306 | 299 | 644 | 438 |
| 401 | 277 | 3349 | |
| Spec. nurses | Low | 80.6% | 67.5% | 51.9% | 67.9% | 63.4% | 76.4% | 49.9% |
|
| 35.5% | 67.4% |
| Medium | 13.0% | 19.1% | 20.5% | 20.0% | 19.8% | 14.6% | 28.6% |
|
| 30.3% | 18.8% | |
| High | 6.4% | 13.4% | 27.5% | 12.1% | 16.8% | 9.1% | 21.5% |
|
| 34.2% | 13.9% | |
| Number | 1009 | 627 | 385 | 1014 | 262 | 563 | 409 |
|
| 152 | 4421 | |
| State- registered nurses | Low | 78.5% | 60.3% | 44.9% | 64.6% | 58.6% | 71.5% | 51.3% |
| 40.9% | 34.2% | 53.8% |
| Medium | 15.1% | 23.7% | 26.0% | 22.8% | 21.4% | 17.7% | 24.4% |
| 31.8% | 30.0% | 24.5% | |
| High | 6.5% | 15.9% | 29.1% | 12.6% | 20.0% | 10.7% | 24.4% |
| 27.3% | 35.8% | 21.7% | |
| Number | 2376 | 2232 | 1826 | 715 | 2160 | 745 | 3871 |
| 3454 | 1736 | 19115 | |
| Nursing aids | Low | 79.3% | 47.5% | 38.8% | 51.0% | 48.1% | 71.6% |
|
| 47.1% | 23.6% | 52.2% |
| Medium | 10.7% | 27.9% | 23.1% | 23.4% | 23.3% | 15.3% |
|
| 29.4% | 22.6% | 21.7% | |
| High | 9.9% | 24.7% | 38.1% | 25.5% | 28.6% | 13.1% |
|
| 23.5% | 53.8% | 26.1% | |
| Number | 382 | 373 | 281 | 145 | 1680 | 275 |
|
| 17 | 106 | 3259 | |
| p |
| ** | *** | *** | *** | *** | ns | ** |
| ns | * | *** |
| Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) (N = 35,736) | ||||||||||||
| Head nurses | No |
| 51.2% | 36.3% | 54.3% | 40.9% | 58.7% | 45.5% | 57.1% | 36.5% | 33.0% | 46.2% |
| Yes own diagnosis |
| 15.8% | 24.7% | 18.9% | 32.6% | 18.4% | 21.9% | 19.8% | 25.9% | 34.3% | 23.0% | |
| Yes physician Dg. |
| 33.0% | 39.0% | 26.9% | 26.5% | 22.9% | 32.6% | 23.1% | 37.6% | 32.7% | 30.9% | |
| Number |
| 406 | 656 | 376 | 328 | 669 | 512 | 268 | 394 | 315 | 3924 | |
| Spec. nurses | No | 61.5% | 53.7% | 41.4% | 54.3% | 49.6% | 63.6% | 44.1% |
|
| 42.0% | 54.0% |
| Yes own diagnosis | 14.3% | 20.7% | 20.2% | 22.4% | 26.4% | 16.8% | 17.7% |
|
| 32.0% | 19.7% | |
| Yes physician Dg. | 24.3% | 25.7% | 38.4% | 23.3% | 23.9% | 19.6% | 38.2% |
|
| 26.0% | 26.3% | |
| Number | 1038 | 697 | 411 | 1170 | 276 | 583 | 479 |
|
| 181 | 4835 | |
| State- registered nurses | No | 61.9% | 49.2% | 37.4% | 58.0% | 45.0% | 58.3% | 40.4% | 58.2% | 39.8% | 38.6% | 46.3% |
| Yes own diagnosis | 15.2% | 18.1% | 23.2% | 22.0% | 30.6% | 21.4% | 27.4% | 20.4% | 30.4% | 35.3% | 25.2% | |
| Yes physician Dg. | 23.0% | 32.7% | 39.4% | 20.0% | 24.4% | 20.2% | 32.2% | 21.4% | 29.8% | 26.1% | 28.5% | |
| Number | 2457 | 2576 | 1942 | 824 | 2338 | 751 | 4573 | 1778 | 3505 | 1971 | 22715 | |
| Nursing aids | No | 59.5% | 36.9% | 38.8% | 56.0% | 40.6% | 68.5% |
| 47.7% | 31.3% | 34.4% | 45.1% |
| Yes own diagnosis | 16.8% | 20.7% | 14.7% | 17.9% | 29.8% | 10.2% |
| 23.2% | 43.8% | 34.4% | 24.0% | |
| Yes physician Dg. | 23.7% | 42.4% | 46.5% | 26.1% | 29.6% | 21.4% |
| 29.2% | 25.0% | 31.1% | 30.9% | |
| Number | 417 | 455 | 312 | 184 | 1947 | 295 |
| 514 | 16 | 122 | 4262 | |
| p |
| ns | *** | ** | ns | *** | *** | *** | *** | * | ns | *** |