Work Ability among Nurses in a Public Medical College Hospital

This cross sectional study was carried out 197 nurses of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital (ShSMCH), Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1st July 2015 to 30th June 2016. Purpose of the study was to assess work ability and its association with sociodemographic characteristics & work related variables which affect work ability among nurses in a Public Medical College Hospital. Sampling method was simple random sampling. By face to face interview data was collected with the help of semi-structured questionnaire and all data were analyzed with SPSS software version 21. For descriptive statistics means, SD and range were calculated as required. Data were presented in frequency table, pie diagram. Statistical test chi-square was used and p<0.05 was consider to be statistically significant. It was found that 136(69%) respondents were between the age of 21 to 39 years and mean age was 35.95 Years, 187(94.9%) were female, 156(79.2%) were Muslim, 166(84.3%) had Diploma, 180(91.4%) family income were equal to and more than 40,000 Tk. 189(95.5%) had done clinical work; 49(24.9%) worked at medicine. Majority 183(92.9%) respondents had good to excellent work ability and 14(7.1%) had less good work ability. In this study significant association (p<0.05) was found between work ability and gender, educational status and type of job. This research provides an initial step in understanding the work ability of nurses in a Public Medical College Hospital. The present study showed that nurses' work ability is at the good to excellent level. This study also reveals significant association between work ability and gender, educational status and type of job.