Title

Investigating Factors Related To Back-Pain Among Nurses: Are There Individual Profiles?

Abstract

Back pain and back injury are common causes of sick leave and workers' compensation claims in the health care industry. Previous studies have shown large variability with regard to correlating situational and organizational factors to back pain among nurses, and there is little agreement as to the factors involved. This study attempted to identify profiles of nurses affected and unaffected by back pain in two hospital environments: a critical care unit and a routine care ward. Questionnaire data from 36 nursing personnel were compared. The results indicated that certain group differences between those who were affected by back pain and those who were not, were related to the work environment: Back pain and back injury appeared to be more of a problem in the critical care unit than in the routine ward. Furthermore, there was a perceived lack of staffing among respondents in the critical care unit. The results are discussed in relation to an exploratory multiple regression analysis which indicated certain individual profiles of those nurses who were affected by back pain and back injury.

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volume

2

Number of Pages

946-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0029200285 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0029200285

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS