Work, Lifestyle and the Potential for Disability at King Faisal Specialist: Nonexperimental Study

The high number of visits of hospital employees to the family-medicine clinic, draws attention toward studying the relationship between work lifestyle and employee complaints and/or physical disabilities. The relationship between different job physical, mental requirements and duration of work hours and type of repeated injuries, may lead to sound understanding of the causative factors of such injuries. The aim of this survey study was to become familiarized with the etiology of workrelated disorders in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center and determine their relationship to the design of the workplace. A questionnaire in both Arabic and English language was distributed among employees at different educational occasions, and received the filled-in one. The questions were coded and inserted in an excel sheet for analytical statistics. The results suggested that there is a strong relationship between: • Age and sites of complaint pain. • Common injuries and work physical and mental stresses. • Common injuries and nature of work. • Physical disability and repeated injuries at work.