• Rujnan Tuna, Feride Eskin Bacaksiz, and Birsen Kahraman.
• Department of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: rujnantuna@yahoo.com.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2022 Feb 1; 23 (1): 62-67.

BackgroundHarsh working conditions lead nurses to experience musculoskeletal discomfort and impair their professional quality of life.AimsThe aim was to determine musculoskeletal discomfort of nurses and to compare its relationship with their professional quality of life in terms of their socio-demographic characteristics.DesignIt is a cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlative study.SettingsDifferent units of a public hospital.Participants333 nurses working at different units.MethodsThe data were collected from 333 nurses working at different units in a public hospital between July and December 2018. The data collection tools include an 8-question participant information form, Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire, and Professional Quality of Life Scale.ResultsThe nurses suffered mostly from lower back pain (90.4%) and their pain slightly interfered with their works (49.8%). There was a weak positive but significant correlation between musculoskeletal discomfort and professional quality of life of the nurses (r = 0.215; p < .001). The nurses, who were younger, were male, were working in executive positions, had less institutional and professional experience, and had higher mean score of musculoskeletal discomfort (p < .05).ConclusionsThe professional quality of life of the nurses experiencing musculoskeletal discomfort in their bodies was negatively affected. For example, as the musculoskeletal disorders increase, the levels of burnout and compassion fatigue, which constitute the quality of life, also increase.Copyright © 2021 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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