Low Back Pain and its Effect in Daily Activities among Staff Nurses
Journal Title: International Journal of Practical Nursing - Year 2019, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the occupational musculoskeletal diseases that occurs most commonly in nurses among all health professionals. LBP ranks the second as a reason for work-force loss and health expenses following cancer pain and it is a common occupational health problem that results in serious physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional and developmental obstacles for nurses. The literature review reveals that the frequency of LBP in nurses ranges between 40% and 97.9% and occurs more frequently in nurses when compared with other individuals insociety. There are various physical and psychosocial risk factors that cause LBP in nurses. The practices that require heavy lifting such as transferring and carrying the patients as a part of nursing care are among the main factors that cause LBP in nurses. Preventing LBPs in nurses is important in order for nurses to exercise their fundamental right to work under healthy and safe conditions and to provide better support for the patients. Necessary individual and institutional precautions should be taken in order to prevent LBP in nurses. Aim: To assess effect low back pain in daily activities among staff nurses working in clinical services. Objectives: Assess low back pain and assess the risk status in regard with activites of daily living among nurses working in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh and assess the risk status of nurses with low back pain. Methodology: A cross sectional survey method with a purposive sampling method will be used to collect data among nurses. Conclusion: Study had reported incidence of low back pain were 59.3% staff nurses and only 41% nurses who did not have it. The reason for low back pain may be handling and mobilizing between 1–5 patients. Younger nurses age group between 24–27 years (60%) had the highest low back pain while older nurses aged 32–35 years (8%) had least low back pain. Institutions must take interest in nurses to be allocate their work according to their efficient, skill, specialty training. Nurses to be rotated in caring the patient such as with a scheduled time interval and can assign caring of patient according to full dependent, partial dependent and independent patients group.
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C Vasantha Kalyani
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- DOI 10.21088/ijpn.2347.7083.7219.1
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