TY - JOUR
T1 - Effective interventions for preventing work related physical health complaints in nursing students and novice nurses
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Kox, Jos H.A.M.
AU - Bakker, Ellen J.M.
AU - Bierma-Zeinstra, Sita
AU - Runhaar, Jos
AU - Miedema, Harald S.
AU - Roelofs, Pepijn D.D.M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The SPRiNG cohort study is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and co-financed by Rotterdam University of Applied Research . NWO falls under the responsibility of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The work of JR and SBZ was partly funded by a program grant from the Dutch Arthritis Foundation .
Funding Information:
The authors thank the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences for funding this research. The authors also thank Wichor Bramer (biomedical information specialist Erasmus MC Rotterdam) for his contribution to the literature searches and Hanny Groenewoud for her critical comments of the final version of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - From the start of their career, nursing students and novice nurses are at risk of developing physical health problems due to high physical workload, which may lead to early exit from nursing. To provide an overview of interventions preventing physical health problems in early career, a systematic review was performed. A comprehensive search of the literature was conducted up to December 2017. Primary outcome of interest was education/work dropout. Secondary outcomes were musculoskeletal symptoms. Independent authors selected studies, appraised quality and extracted data. After screening 7111 titles and abstracts, eleven studies were included. Seven studies evaluated interventions for moving/handling training. Four evaluated other interventions. None focused on our primary outcome education/work dropout. All studies reported on physical complaints among student nurses only. Overall, risk of bias was high and clinical heterogeneity prohibited pooling of data. Intervention effects were small and inconsistent. In conclusion, evidence for the effectiveness of interventions in the nursing curricula for the prevention/treatment of physical complaints is scarce and where available conflicting. We recommend high quality research on dropout due to physical health problems, as well as on the prevention/treatment of physical complaints.
AB - From the start of their career, nursing students and novice nurses are at risk of developing physical health problems due to high physical workload, which may lead to early exit from nursing. To provide an overview of interventions preventing physical health problems in early career, a systematic review was performed. A comprehensive search of the literature was conducted up to December 2017. Primary outcome of interest was education/work dropout. Secondary outcomes were musculoskeletal symptoms. Independent authors selected studies, appraised quality and extracted data. After screening 7111 titles and abstracts, eleven studies were included. Seven studies evaluated interventions for moving/handling training. Four evaluated other interventions. None focused on our primary outcome education/work dropout. All studies reported on physical complaints among student nurses only. Overall, risk of bias was high and clinical heterogeneity prohibited pooling of data. Intervention effects were small and inconsistent. In conclusion, evidence for the effectiveness of interventions in the nursing curricula for the prevention/treatment of physical complaints is scarce and where available conflicting. We recommend high quality research on dropout due to physical health problems, as well as on the prevention/treatment of physical complaints.
KW - Dropout
KW - Moving/handling training
KW - Musculoskeletal problems
KW - Novice nurses
KW - Student nurses
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082200936&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102772
DO - 10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102772
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32222492
AN - SCOPUS:85082200936
SN - 1471-5953
VL - 44
JO - NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
JF - NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
M1 - 102772
ER -