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. 2021 Feb 7;18(4):1567.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041567.

Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Associated Risk Factors among Nurses at King Abdulaziz University Hospital

Aishah Almaghrabi  1 , Fatmah Alsharif  2
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Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Associated Risk Factors among Nurses at King Abdulaziz University Hospital

Aishah Almaghrabi et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Aim: To determine the prevalence of LBP and the associated risk factors among nurses at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH).

Methods: A cross-sectional study design was adopted with a convenience sample of 234 nurses recruited from nine different departments at KAUH in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Participants completed the questionnaire, which had two parts: Part I: Socio-demographic data, medical factors, and work-related factors; and Part II: Standardized Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire was used to obtain data. Data collection was carried out from March to April 2020. Data were analyzed using the SPSS version 22.

Results: Cumulative prevalence of LBP was 82.9%, annual prevalence was 85.5%, while one-week prevalence of LBP was 53.6%. The factor significantly associated with LBP over the past 12 months was manual lifting of patients (p = 0.030). Nurses working in surgical wards had higher prevalence of LBP. About 24.7% of them changed their working unit, hospitalization was necessary for 11.9%, and 39.8% sought medical care.

Conclusions: The findings from this study may better enable policymakers to adopt certain strategies toward reducing the burdens and challenges of LBP among nurses.

Keywords: low back pain; nurses; prevalence; risk factors.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Region of low back pain. Adapted from (Kuorinka et al., 1987).
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