Musculoskeletal pain in four occupational populations in Sri Lanka

Warnakulasuriya, S.S.P.; Peiris‐John, Roshini; Coggon, David; Ntani, Georgia; Sathiakumar, Nalini; Wickremasinghe, A.R.

doi:10.1093/occmed/kqs057

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“…These factors were found to have statistically significant relationships with LBP in our study. These results are in agreements with the findings of Heutink et al [20,32,33,37] who noted a similar association between age, obesity, experience and low back pain. Furthermore, Schlossmacher and Amaral [35] reported that low back pain was 2.39 more common in obese individuals when compared with the respondents of normal weight and underweight.…”

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“…These findings are in accordance with many studies (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. [20,33,35,36] who have agreed that activities such as lifting heavy patients, repetitive lifting and lifting alone contribute to LBP. The reasons why nurses tend to injure their backs during transfers include loss of balance (nurse and/or patient), failure to use a transfer device, sudden movement, and a poor physical work environment.…”

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“…[20] Coping, as defined by Hestbaek, Leboeuf, and Kyvik [21] is a process of evaluating a stressful situation consisting of primary and secondary appraisal and responding to a stressor. Coping with medical conditions may also be influenced by the illness perceptions of an individual and emotional response to the perceived health threat.…”

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Low back pain and coping strategies’ among nurses in Port Said City, Egypt

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El-Ezaby

El-Mowafy

2015

JNEP

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Background: Low back pain is a very common health problem worldwide and a major cause of disability-affecting performance at work and general well-being. The aim of this study was to assess low back pain and coping strategies' among nurses in Port Said City. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of low back pain among 419 nurses working in six governmental hospitals and four primary health care centers in Port-Said City. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using five tools. Results: A total of 419 completed questionnaires were analyzed. The mean pain severity score was 5.8 ± 1.8. The present study revealed that a highly statistically significant relation between pain score, perception, and coping strategies and age, body mass index, experience, and duration of low back pain among nurses complaints of low back pain. Conclusions: More than three quarters of nurses suffered from low back pain due to long standing and more than two thirds due to heavy lifting and hospital work. With respect to strategies for coping with low back pain, positive correlations were found between withdrawal and denial as a coping strategy with age and experience.

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Low back pain and coping strategies’ among nurses in Port Said City, Egypt

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El-Mowafy

2015

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“…have been cross-sectional in design [13,43,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55], and these have found relative risks or odds ratios of up to 4-5 for pain at specific anatomical sites. Moreover, the relationship extends to widespread pain [56], and there are indications that relative risks are even higher for pain occurring at multiple sites [10,12].…”

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Psychological and psychosocial determinants of musculoskeletal pain and associated disability

Vargas-Prada

Coggon

2015

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology

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Although much attention has been given to the physical determinants of common musculoskeletal complaints such as back and arm pain, research points to a stronger influence of psychological factors. Multiple studies have implicated poor mental health and somatisation (a tendency to worry about common somatic symptoms) in the incidence and chronicity of musculoskeletal pain and associated disability. Also important are adverse beliefs about the prognosis of such disorders, and about the role of physical activity in their development and persistence. Differences in societal beliefs may have contributed to major variation in the prevalence of disabling musculoskeletal pain that has been observed between countries and in the same countries over time. Psychosocial aspects of work have also been linked with musculoskeletal pain, although relative risks have generally been smaller. There is a need to take account of psychological factors in the clinical management of patients with back, neck and arm pain. KeywordsMusculoskeletal pain; mental health; somatisation; health beliefs; psychosocial factors Historically, attempts to prevent incapacity for work from musculoskeletal disorders have focused mainly on the physical demands of employment. It has been assumed that symptoms and disability arise from injury to tissues, and can be prevented by better ergonomic design of occupational tasks to reduce mechanical loading. This biophysical paradigm may be appropriate for some types of musculoskeletal disease -for example, osteoarthritis of the hip caused by heavy lifting (see Chapter X) and degenerative meniscal Europe PMC Funders Group Europe PMC Funders Author ManuscriptsEurope PMC Funders Author Manuscripts tears in the knee caused by prolonged kneeling and squatting Chapter X). However, it has become increasingly apparent that the model has only limited applicability to common painful disorders of the back, neck and upper limb, which are the main musculoskeletal causes of disability for work.Most disabling pain of the back and upper limb is non-specific in nature with no clear evidence of underlying injury to tissues, and even where pathology can be demonstrated (e.g. herniation of an intervertebral disc in people with back pain), it appears often not to be the explanation for the symptom [1]. Furthermore, there have been major temporal changes in the prevalence of musculoskeletal illness and disability that cannot be explained by altered physical exposures. For example, social security statistics indicate that in Britain, long-term incapacity for work because of back pain increased more than eightfold between 1950 and the early 1990s [2], at a time when the physical demands of work were declining because of greater mechanisation and a shift in employment from manufacturing to service industries. And in Australia, there was a major epidemic of arm pain during the 1980s among office workers, which was not paralleled in other countries that were using similar technology [3].These observations indicate that factors ...

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“…The literature contains several studies indicating that WRMDs affect almost every body part of workers in this industry, including the arm (Amano et al, 1988), the neck (Serratos-Perez & Mendiola-Anda, 1993), the shoulder (Descatha et al, 2004;Leclerc et al, 2004), the hand/finger (Gupta & Mahalanabis, 2006), the elbow (Descatha et al, 2007), the upper back (Aghili et al, 2012), the lower back (Warnakulasuriya et al, 2012), the knee (Dianat & Salimi, 2014), the hip/thigh and ankle/foot (Silva et al, 2016). In addition, the Brazilian footwear industry is marked by a history of physical and psychological violence perpetrated by supervisors against shop floor workers (Borsoi et al, 2009;Rigotto et al, 2010).…”

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