Relationship amongst Job Stress and Chronic Back-Pain: A Cross Sectional Study of Teaching and Administrative Staff

Abstract

Background & Objective: The job stress, undesirable work assignments, heavy workload and continuously working while sitting in office stimulates back-pain, however, the daily exercise can reduce the back-pain. The objective of the study was to examine the relationship amongst job stress and chronic pain in back and investigate the factors of chronic pain in back amongst teaching and administrative staff. Methodology: The study was conducted at Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan with the help of Questionnaire & Interviews. The methodology of the study was cross-sectional. The random sampling method has been applied in this study, and a sample of 300 respondents (150 teaching staff and 150 administrative staff) was selected for this study. Results & Conclusion: Results indicated that due to job stress and continuously working in the office, the pain in back gradually develops in both categories of staff, however, due to ignorance, the back pain leads to chronic back-pain with other severe complications. The results also indicated that the teaching staff possesses lesser back-pain while the administrative staff suffers from pain in back as they have to work in the office regularly. It was also observed that the staff who daily exercise have lesser back-pain while the staff who do not exercise regularly faces back pain. Hence the job stress is associated with chronic pain, and regular physical workout can reduce chronic back-pain.