Prevalence of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Nurses Working in Hospitals of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Table 6

Prevalence of WMSDs in the nurses with various working duration per week.

Working duration per week	(%)	In the recent 1 year	Lower back	Neck	Shoulder	Back
		(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
≤40	974 (14.59)	676 (69.40)	516 (52.98)	497 (51.03)	434 (44.56)	354 (36.34)
41~50	5366 (80.40)	4221 (78.66)	3432 (63.96)	3261 (60.77)	2671 (49.78)	2110 (39.32)
≥51	334 (5.00)	271 (81.14)	237 (70.96)	231 (69.16)	209 (62.5)	172 (51.50)
Total	6674 (100.00)	5168 (77.43)	4185 (62.71)	3989 (59.77)	3314 (49.66)	2636 (39.50)
	—	43.191	52.743	45.455	32.454	24.245
	—	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

, compared with nurses with a working duration of less than 40 hrs per week.