The Manual Dexterity of Nurses and Factors that Affect It

Abstract

The purpose of this descriptive and analytical study was to define the manual dexterity of nurses and factors that affect it. The sample for this descriptive and analytical study consisted of 96 nurses who worked in an education and research hospital in the south region of Turkey and were willing to participate in the study. The data collection tools were a survey and the Purdue pegboard test. The results of this study indicated that gender and lack of hobby affect hands dexterity and that some types of manual dexterity decreased as age, years of working as a nurse, and BMI increased. The results of this study may constitute a normative data for future studies which would be conducted on this issue.

Keywords

• manual dexterity
• nursing
• purdue pegboard test