Abstract

Low back pain remains a common and costly problem among the nursing profession. Many studies report higher prevalence of back pain and occupational back injuries for nurses compared with other occupational groups. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of body mechanics training program for intensive care nurses to reduce back pain. A quasiexperimental research design was conducted in Emergency Unit , Neurological Intensive Care Unit at Tanta University Hospital and oncology intensive care unit at Tanta Cancer Institute affiliated to Ministry of Health .A purposive sample of 42 nurses were included in the study .Three different tools were used to collect data. Tool I : Interview questionnaires sheet : It consists of two parts Part one: concerned with sociodemographic characteristics ,Part two: assess nurses 'knowledge regarding low back pain and body mechanics .Tool II A Self Administered back pain structured Questionnaire Sheet for assessment of back pain ,Tool III :An Observational checklist :which was developed to observe using body mechanic principles among the studied participants while sitting, standing, walking, bending , lifting and patients handling . Data collection was done pre, post implementation from August 2014 to February 2015. Result: revealed that about two third of them 65% had low back pain for 8-30 days , majority of them 77.5% , 80% had reducing in work and leisure activities related to low back pain and half of them 50% were seen by physiotherapist. There were highly statistically significant difference regarding total knowledge about back pain, body mechanics knowledge and performance preand postprogram implementation p=0.0000). Conclusion& Recommendations: revealed that there are differences between intensity, quality, duration and rhythms of low back pain for studied nurses in pre and post program implantation. The study should be replicated on large sample and different hospitals setting in order to generalize the results. [Reda Abd Eslam and Om Ebrahiem A. E. Elsaay The effect of body mechanics training program for intensive care nurses in reducing low back pain.

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