Pain complaints are associated with quick returns and insomnia among Norwegian nurses, but do not differ between shift workers and day only workers

To determine whether common work schedule characteristics among Norwegian nurses were associated with subjective pain complaints. A cross-sectional study in a sample of 1585 nurses, part of the longitudinal questionnaire-based cohort project ‘Survey of Shift work, Sleep and Health’ (SUSSH). Pain from six regions were assessed: ‘headache’, ‘neck/shoulder/upper back’, ‘upper extremities’, ‘lower back’, ‘lower extremities’, and ‘abdomen’. Logistic...