en Occupational Health Original Article <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Background: </strong>Occupational stress has physical and psychological consequences, and is a major cause of job dissatisfaction among employees, which can reduce the quality of services provided. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between job stress and the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among computer users in hospitals (private & governmental) of Gorgan, Iran, in 2014.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Materials and Methods</strong><strong>:</strong> This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The study participants consisted of 94 hospital computer users. Data were collected using the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) and Osipow&rsquo;s Occupational Stress Inventory. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Results</strong><strong>:</strong> The mean score of the subjects studied was 159&plusmn;77.24. The results revealed that 6.38% of the staff had mild stress, 68.9% mild to moderate stress, 24.47% had moderate to high stress, and none of the employees had high occupational stress. There was no significant relationship between job stress and MSDs of the neck, shoulders, back, elbows, and hands and wrists, but the relationship between stress and MSDs of the waist was significant (P=0.03).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The prevalence of MSDs in the studied hospital computer users was high and stress in the workplace can have an important role in the pathogenesis of this disorder.</span></p> Stress, Occupational, Computer, Musculoskeletal Disease 139 145 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-172-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 E Taban ebrahim.taban@modares.ac.ir 22400319475328460011690 22400319475328460011690 No Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. Tarbiat Modares University S Shokri shokrisana@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011691 22400319475328460011691 No Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran. Qazvin University of Medical Sciences M Yazdani Aval ebrahim.taban@modares.ac.ir 22400319475328460011692 22400319475328460011692 No Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. Tarbiat Modares University M Rostami Aghdam Shendi ebrahim.taban@modares.ac.ir 22400319475328460011693 22400319475328460011693 No Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran Tehran University HO Kalteh o.kalte@modares.ac.ir 22400319475328460011694 22400319475328460011694 Yes Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. Tarbiat Modares University F Keshizadeh 22400319475328460011695 22400319475328460011695 No Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. Tarbiat Modares University