Abstract
Hospital employees and especially nurses have a high frequency of work‐related skin diseases. The purpose of the present study was to collect baseline data in order to plan an intervention project with focus on skin problems among different hospital job groups reporting high frequencies of work related skin problems or eczema. Self‐administered questionnaires based on a standardized questionnaire for work‐related skin diseases and exposure (NOSQ‐2002) were used. A total of about 1.900 employees from all job groups at the hospital where invited to participate. Due to anonymous distribution of the questionnaires it was not possible to administer reminders. The overall response rate was 65%. Among the 1.246 respondents the frequency of self‐reported eczema within the last year varied between different departments from 7% to 44%. Assessed by job group the eczema frequency varied from 8% to 31%, with the highest frequency found among nurses and assistant nurses.
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