Study of Occupational Factors Associated with Low Back Pain in Truck Drivers of Nagpur City, India
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Occupational low back pain is most common symptoms among seated workers, standing workers, truck drivers and so on. Driving frequently involves many risk factors such as prolonged sitting and motor vehicle driving, tight running schedules, reduced rest breaks, traffic congestion, the sedentary nature of job etc. Objectives: 1) To find out the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) among truck drivers 2) To study occupational factors associated with low back pain. Materials and methods: This was a cross sectional study carried out among truck drivers of goods transport companies in Nagpur city during the February 2010 to April 2010. Total 256 truck drivers were selected by simple random sampling. Information was gathered with the predesigned and pretested questionnaire. Prevalence LBP is defined as rate of study subjects who experienced LBP in the past one week. Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) score was used to assess physical disability due to low back pain. Study variables included were physique of drivers, demographic features (age, gender and marital status), working conditions (working hours and the frequency of night shifts; average mileage, seat condition), health conditions, the presence of low back pain, Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) score. Results & Conclusion: Prevalence of LBP was found to be 62.10%. Among study subjects with LBP, RMDQ score averaged 5.1. MLR shows the association between LBP and history of low back pain before working as a driver, diseases other than low back pain, sleeplessness, duration of driving >48hrs/wk, daily average driving > 200 kms, and body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg/m2.
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Borle Amod, Agawane Shubhangi, Gunjal Sandeep,Tayde Prashant
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