STUDY OF LOWBACK PAIN PREVALENCE IN NURSES WHO WORK IN KHOY HOSPITALS IN 1386

Habibzadeh, H and Lak, KH and Airemlo, A and Jafarizadeh, H and Motaarefi, H (2008) STUDY OF LOWBACK PAIN PREVALENCE IN NURSES WHO WORK IN KHOY HOSPITALS IN 1386. The Journal of Urmia Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, 6 (1). pp. 17-25.

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Abstract

In the past decade, musculoskeletal disorders was increased throughout the world. This problem was indentured organization staffs and lead to disability & resource wastage. Spinal cord is a sensitive organ and endures several mechanical pressures. So back pain is a common finding in disasters works such as nursing. Working in emergency condition encounter those suffering back pain. Methods & Materials: This research is a cross-sectional study that carried out among 110 khoy hospital nurses. Data gathering tool was questionnaire that contains 15 questions about demographic, occupational and low back pain status among samples. We used content validity and reliability testretest one. Also we used descriptive statistic as well as K2 test too. Results: Findings showed that prevalence of neck pain was 56%, back pain was 43%, and lumbar pain 78% and iliac pain was 39% among samples. We don’t found any significant correlation between back pain incidence and work time in week (p=0.29), job history (p=0.27) and ogronomy awareness (p=0.45). But we found significant correlation between back pain incidence and ogronomy application (p=0.041) and soft exercise (p=0.048). Conclusion: According to the findings back pain is an important health problem among nurses. Nursing is a disasters job and health promotion of nurses can influence in public health services. So we must stop increasingly prevalence of this problem with inhancing nurses knowledge about orgonomy and promoting job condition in hospitals

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