TY - JOUR
T1 - Low back pain disability and stay at work
T2 - Contradiction or necessity?
AU - Padula, Rosimeire Simprini
AU - Carregaro, Rodrigo Luiz
AU - Melo, Bruna
AU - Da Silva, Cláudia Regina
AU - Oliveira, Ana Beatriz
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The incidence of occupational diseases in the population is high and factors such as long working hours, poor posture, psychological and physical stress can contribute to its development. Among work-related musculoskeletal disorders, back pain has a high prevalence. The aim of the present study was to quantify and characterize pain complaints and to identifyindividuals with low back pain, in order to assess the degree of disability. Participated 226 employees of an institution of higher education. They answered a general questionnaire about location and quantification of pain complaints visual analog scale for pain and the Quebec Disability Questionnaire. Of all the workers, 69.60% had some type of musculoskeletal complaint; of those, 15.41% had low back pain. Considering workers who had back pain, 54.9% were female, 52.94% are under 30 years old and 43.14% between 1 and 5 years of work. As for the final score for the degree of disability, 41.17% had minimal disability and 37.25% moderate disability. The present study found large number of pain complaints and high prevalence of low back pain, resulting in individual's inability and difficulties in performing work activities.
AB - The incidence of occupational diseases in the population is high and factors such as long working hours, poor posture, psychological and physical stress can contribute to its development. Among work-related musculoskeletal disorders, back pain has a high prevalence. The aim of the present study was to quantify and characterize pain complaints and to identifyindividuals with low back pain, in order to assess the degree of disability. Participated 226 employees of an institution of higher education. They answered a general questionnaire about location and quantification of pain complaints visual analog scale for pain and the Quebec Disability Questionnaire. Of all the workers, 69.60% had some type of musculoskeletal complaint; of those, 15.41% had low back pain. Considering workers who had back pain, 54.9% were female, 52.94% are under 30 years old and 43.14% between 1 and 5 years of work. As for the final score for the degree of disability, 41.17% had minimal disability and 37.25% moderate disability. The present study found large number of pain complaints and high prevalence of low back pain, resulting in individual's inability and difficulties in performing work activities.
KW - ergonomic risk factors
KW - musculoskeletal disorders
KW - occupational health
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U2 - 10.3233/WOR-2012-0476-2417
DO - 10.3233/WOR-2012-0476-2417
M3 - Article
C2 - 22317079
AN - SCOPUS:84859867113
SN - 1051-9815
VL - 41
SP - 2417
EP - 2419
JO - Work
JF - Work
IS - SUPPL.1
ER -