chronic low back pain and disability among nurses: a cross sectional study from bam, iran
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background: although clbp rarely threatens the humans’ lives, those individuals suffering from such pain experience a variety of health-related problems and difficulties such as physical disability. this study aimed to determine the relationship between low back pain and physical disability among nurses working in pastor hospital of bam, kerman, iran. methods and material: this cross sectional study was conducted among nurses and paramedics who suffering from chronic back pain and working in pastor hospital in agu, 2015. through randomly sampling, 120 eligible individuals were recruited of which 104 individuals were satisfied to enter to the study. the standard tools of owsestry for physical disability status and visual analoug scale (vas) for measurements of pain intensity as well as demographic questionnaire were used respectively to collect data. the spss software, version 18 was used to analyze the data. results: in all, 104 participants with mean age of 34.7±8.9were assessed. the majority of participants (n = 90, 86.5%) were female. there were significant association between functional disability and low back pain intensity (p
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عنوان ژورنال:
international journal of musculoskeletal pain preventionناشر: tarbiat modares university
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دوره 1
شماره 1 2016
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