Objective To investigate the prevalence and possible influencing factors of low back pain among nurses in a hospital in Tangshan City.
Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted to collect general demographic information, work background, work load, work perception, and prevalence of low back pain of nursing staff from a hospital in Tangshan City. Non-conditional logistic regression analysis was used to identify the influencing factors of low back pain.
Results There were 476 nurses with low back pain among 784 respondents, and the prevalence rate was 60.7%. Among them, those who reported muscle soreness accounted for 81.3%, those who suffered from related symptoms almost daily accounted for 54.9%, and those who thought their work and life were affected therefrom accounted for 81.7%. The multiple non-conditional logistic regression analysis results showed that job satisfaction (OR=1.722, 95%CI:1.165-2.545), remuneration (OR=1.556, 95%CI:1.095-2.212), the range of twisting or bending at work (OR=1.123, 95%CI:1.018-1.238), daily working hours (OR=1.104, 95%CI:1.000-1.218), the number of repeating the same action per hour (OR=1.041, 95%CI:1.015-1.068), patients cared for every day (OR=1.021, 95%CI:1.006-1.036), average rest days per month (OR=0.937, 95%CI:0.884-0.992), and employment status (OR=0.475, 95%CI:0.348-0.647) were the possible influencing factors of low back pain in selected nursing staff.
Conclusion A high prevalence of low back pain is identified among the hospital nurses. Lower job satisfaction, unsatisfactory remuneration, increased range of twisting or bending at work, more working hours, increased number of repeating the same action per hour, and more patients cared for every day might be the risk factors for low back pain of the studied nurses; more rest days per month and staff not within establishment might be the protective factors.
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