Abstract
Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the pains due to work, usually called lower back pain, and has always become the main cause of a disability, in which its effect has influenced the activities in the workplace. The risk factors influencing the pain occurrence include individual factor (age, gender, years of service, body mass index, smoking habit, exercising habit), psychosocial factor, and occupational factor. The aim of the sesearch was determine the factors influencing low back pain occurrence in nurses of Rumah Sakit Islam Purwokerto. The research used a quantitative descriptive design with a cross-sectional study. The sampling technique was total sampling with 75 respondents. The research instrument was a questionnaire with Chi-Square test. The research result indicates that there is no correlation between the factor of gender (0.648), smoking habit (0.418), and exercise habit (0.484) to low back pain occurrence. This is because the p value from the Chi Square test = 0.05.Mean while, it is found that there is a correlation between the factor of age (0.045), body mass index (0.000), years of service (0.002), occupational (0.002), and psychosocial (0.032) to low back pain occurrence. This is because the p value from the Chi Square test = 0.05. The factors influencing low back pain occurrence in nurses of Rumah Sakit Islam Purwokerto are the factors of age, years of service, body mass index, occupational, and psychosocial.
Highlights
Low Back Pain is a work-related disease or commonly called low back pain and is always the main cause for a disability, which as a result can affect a person’s productivity at work and disturb the well being of the person
Based on table 4.2, the results show that there is no relationship between gender (0.648), smoking habits (0.418), sports habits (0.484), to the incidence of Low Back Pain because the p value results with the Chi Square test, namely> α = 0, 05
Chi Square test results obtained p value of 0, 045 which is smaller than α: 0.05, meaning that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, so it can be concluded that there is a relation between the age factor and the incidence of Low Back Pain in Nurses at Purwokerto Hospital
Summary
Low Back Pain (lbp) is a work-related disease or commonly called low back pain and is always the main cause for a disability, which as a result can affect a person’s productivity at work and disturb the well being of the person. It is estimated that 40% of Central Java population aged over 65 years have suffered from back pain and the prevalence in men is 18.2% and 13.6% in women. According to WHO, out of 35 million health workers abroad, it is known that 41% of nurses in hospitals have experienced spinal injuries due to work / occupational low back pain (Decree of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia). Nursing staff are included in the professional group at high risk for musculoskeletal injuries, especially in the thoraco-lumbar spine which will cause low back pain [3]
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