انتشار آلام أسفل الظهر وعوامل الاختطار بين مقدمي الرعاية الصحية في مراكز الرعاية الصحية الأولية بمنطقة المسيب(العراق ، بابل 2022)

Rp-The Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Risk Factors among Health Care Providers in Primary Health Care Centers in AL-Mussayiab District Babil.pdf

Background: Healthcare providers are exposed to ergonomic hazards, musculoskeletal disorders, and other work-related injuries. Low back pain is the most common musculoskeletal disorder. The objective of present study is to determine the prevalence of back pain in health providers with emphasis on contributing risk factors and impact of LBP on health and life style habits.
Methods: The present study was a descriptive, cross-sectional study estimates the prevalence and risk factors for low back pain in health personnel. The study was conducted on healthcare providers which were selected by sampling technique (stratified random). Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software, version 28.0 (IBM, SPSS, Chicago, Illinois, USA) software.
Results: The results indicated that the riskiest occupational group consisted of nurses. The majority of participants 328 (81.8%) from the total of 401 reported that they were not doing any activity of running for > 15 minutes, while only 75 (18.5%) were doing Sport >15 min and 309 (77.1%) claimed that they were walking for > 15 min.
Among the 401 healthcare providers, about (304) had low back pain (LBP) in the last 12 months, giving a prevalence of (75.8%) among the studied group. On the other hand, low back pain at the time of interview (3 months prevalence) was found in 282 healthcare providers represented (70.3%) of the studied group. Most of the participants had non-diagnostic as LBP. Results indicated that most participants 192(76.5%) who had reported to have LBP were overweight. But unfortunately, this population-based study showed that there was not any association between LBP and the lifestyle factors. Job-related factors were the most important factors associated with low back pain in health care personnel. Occupational factors can increase the chances of low back pain in health care providers. Results indicated that there was a significant relationship between low back pain and the profession of the medical staff. The Chi-Square was estimated to be 17.975 and p value was (0.021). Also, there was a statistically significant association between Co-morbid diseases and LBP, p value was =0.001.
Conclusion: Results suspected that Low back pain has a direct effect on healthcare providers in the PHCCs, and their job restrictions and attendance. Healthcare providers need to make a necessary regulation regarding working in a constant position for a long time, encouraging towards exercise among health centre provider employees will contribute to decreasing the low back pain incidence ratio.