Aim To compare two educational approaches to reduce low back pain in nurses. Design A community randomized controlled clinical trial. Methods Data were collected with two interventions and a control arm between August 2018 and January 2019. Participants were recruited from three hospitals. Hospital 1 received an in‐person educational programme, Hospital 2 received via the website and Hospital 3 received nothing. Statistical analysis was carried out with a follow‐up of 3 and 6 months. Results A total of 180 female nurses with low back pain participated in the study. Dimensions of the quality of life improved over 3 and 6 months, pain and disability decreased over 3 months in both intervention groups and over 6 months in the social media group. Conclusion Two educational approaches can be effective in decreasing pain, disability and improving quality of life. However, the findings suggest that the social media approach was more successful over the long‐term and might be a better way to present the programme.
Aim: To develop and test the psychometric properties of occupational low back pain prevention behaviours questionnaire in nursing personnel. Design: A qualitative and quantitative research design to develop and validate an instrument. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted from May-October 2017 with 20 participants to generate an item pool. Then, content and face validity was carried out. Next, the questionnaire was distributed among a sample of nurses. In all, 150 nurses participated (mean age 34.1; SD 7.66 years) in the study. Exploratory factor analysis used to determine the factor structure of the questionnaire. Item-scale correlation matrix was provided to examine the construct validity. Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) was estimated to assess reliability and intraclass correlation coefficient was calculated to examine stability. Results: Six factors with 30 items emerged from the exploratory factor analysis that jointly accounted for 67.9% of the variance observed. Item-scale correlation matrix showed satisfactory results lending support to construct validity of the questionnaire. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole scale showed excellent internal consistency (0.92), although this was not true for the knowledge subscale. The intraclass correlation coefficient with a 2-week interval also indicated that the questionnaire had satisfactory stability (0.97). Conclusion: This study provides initial support for reliability and validity of the Occupational Low Back Pain Prevention Behaviour Questionnaire. Impact: This study offers an instrument to assess low back pain preventive behaviours among nurses. The instrument is useful for nursing personnel and could be used in hospitals and healthcare settings to implement appropriate interventions.
Work -related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSds) are mainly associated with nurses' high physical demands. Training healthy behavior can reduce these disorders. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of educational intervention based on Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) on changing unhealthy behaviors leading to(LBP) in nursing aid staff working in Qom hospitals. Method and Materials: A quasi-experimental study was conducted from 2017 to 2018 with educational intervention based on SCT was performed on 452 nursing aid. Data collection tools were the questionnaire of SCT constructs, the LBP Prevention Behavior Questionnaire (LBPBPQ), the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (QBPDS), and the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for LBP. The training was based on the four structures of self-efficacy, self-regulation, outcome expectation, and moral disengagement in groups of 20 to 30 individuals. Then the pre-and post-intervention data were compared through the statistical tests. Findings: After the intervention, SCT structures were increased significantly. The mean score of lumbar health behavior after training showed a significant increase from 32.59 to 32.57. The mean score of LBP after training decreased significantly from 5.17 to 3.98 and the mean score of physical disability of LBP decreased significantly after training. Conclusion: Educational intervention based on SCT reduces the severity of LBP and the consequent disability.
Background Low back pain in nursing profession remains an important health issue. This study aims to assess whether a theory based interactive social media intervention could change job-related risk behaviors among nursing personnel. Methods This is a community-randomized controlled trial. Three settings of hospitals will randomly be assigned to the study arms: Intervention setting 1 receiving an in-person educational package; intervention setting 2 receiving the same material a web-based; and a control setting receiving nothing. The intervention would contain materials related to occupational risk behaviors and will try to promote the knowledge, attitude, skill, and self-efficacy of nurses on low back pain preventive behaviors. The primary outcome will be reduction in low back pain. The study also will assess whether the intervention could reduce pain-related disability and improve the quality of life. Discussion Occupational low back pain among nurses could adversely affect both patients and nurses’ health. This study is an attempt to see if social media could play a role to guide the development and implementation of future interventions.
Aims: Telecommuting effects on various aspects of personal and professional life, such as productivity, work-life balance, performance, quality of life and job satisfaction. Due to limited knowledge regarding these impacts, the present study was conducted to review the evidences to conclude the overall effects of telework on personal and professional life of individuals who telework. Method and Materials: In this study key search was done between 2000 and 2021 in databases of science direct, web of science, pubMed, scopus, magiran and google scholar. Keywords were telecommuting, teleworking, productivity, job satisfaction, work-life balance, work-life conflict, stress and performance. Findings: This study showed telecommuting can have positive and negative effects on various aspects of personal and professional life, such as productivity, job satisfaction, work-life balance, and quality of work performance, work-life conflict and stress. Type of organization, community, family and the telecommuter himself were various influential factors in this regard. Conclusion: Due to the importance of the organizational productivity, family and community progress, and the telecommuter himself satisfaction, more attention should be paid to these factors during Covid -19 prevalence.It is also recommended to conduct more studies on the effects of telecommuting on personal and professional life.
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