Open AccessLOW BACK PAIN
Author(s) -
Anam Saleem,
Hassan Jameel,
Muhammad Idrees,
Arif Ali Rana
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2018.25.04.337
Subject(s) - medicine , physical therapy , low back pain , statistic , descriptive statistics , back pain , cross sectional study , alternative medicine , statistics , mathematics , pathology
Objectives: To determine the level of disability in nurses with low back pain.Background: Pain is unpleasant expressive condition which is felt in the brain and arises in apart of the body. In spite of, this term is a subjective sensation. In health care workers LBP isthe major cause of morbidity. Nurses are more prone to vulnerable Low Back Pain in the healthcare services. Study Design: Descriptive Cross Sectional. Setting: Data was collected from273 nurses from different hospitals of Lahore Pakistan like Jinnah hospital, Children hospital,Mayo hospital, Sheikh Zaid hospital, General hospital, Punjab Institute of Cardiology, ServicesHospital, Ch. Akram Hospital. Period: 06 months. Methodology: Oswestry Disability Indexquestionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive statistic was used for the analysis ofthe data which paying attention through frequency tables. Results: The total mean score ofOswestry scale of disability was 10.81±( SD=11.028).Total mean age 29.11±( SD=6.001).Level of disability was found highest in lifting due to backache in nurses with mean score was2.42+1.60. Conclusion: Level of disability in nurses with low back pain was found to be in mildstate. The highest level of disability was found in lifting due to low back pain in nurses.