Arm pain and daytime sleepiness among nursing home employees

Industrial Health

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 669-673

  Takahashi, Masaya ^a   Iwakiri, Kazuyuki ^a   Sotoyama, Midori ^a   Hirata, Mamoru ^a   Hisanaga, Naomi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^b AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daytime sleepiness; Epworth sleepiness scale; Musculoskeletal disorders; Nursing homes; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NECK PAIN; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; PAIN; SELF REPORT; SHOULDER PAIN; SLEEP DISORDER; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33751111180     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.669     Document Type: Article

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