The social media intervention for lower back pain education study (SMILE): a protocol for a randomized trial to reduce occupational low back pain in nursing professionals

Abstract

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.

Low Back Pain Preventive Intervention in Clinical Workers in Lorestan Hospitals in Iran

“…The present study verified that the designed educational intervention were effective on promoting knowledge, attitude and behaviors of clinical workers in intervention group. These results are in line with the results of the previous studies [10,11] . In addition , the existed study [12] , Which was conducted in 2017 regarding the effect of back school workshops on the level of knowledge and attitude of nurses , showed that after training program a significant difference was seen in knowledge and attitude of the participants that is consistent with the results of present study.…”

“…In the present study the attitude of the intervention group was significantly improved after taking part in intervention program. In this regard, previous studies [11,13] have supported this finding of the present study in terms of significance improvement of attitude of the participants after the intervention. In the study of Kazemi et al [11] , between the two methods of face-to-face and virtual education, the change in attitude in the direct education method in the first trimester was due to the direct relationship between educator and learner and the possibility of more exchange, although the effect of virtual education on longer evaluation, has been obtained because of virtual education benefits such as greater accessibility and lower implementation costs.…”

“…In this regard, previous studies [11,13] have supported this finding of the present study in terms of significance improvement of attitude of the participants after the intervention. In the study of Kazemi et al [11] , between the two methods of face-to-face and virtual education, the change in attitude in the direct education method in the first trimester was due to the direct relationship between educator and learner and the possibility of more exchange, although the effect of virtual education on longer evaluation, has been obtained because of virtual education benefits such as greater accessibility and lower implementation costs. The findings of the present study revealed that it have been more successful in changing attitudes among the participants because of taking part in educational classes and removing possible barriers through questioning/answering so that they could do the preventive behavior easily.…”

“…The findings of the present study revealed that it have been more successful in changing attitudes among the participants because of taking part in educational classes and removing possible barriers through questioning/answering so that they could do the preventive behavior easily. of course, in Kazemi study [11] it was shown that the use of virtual education as a supplement and reminder of training has also played an effective role in the sustainability of training.…”

Promoting behavior-related low back health in nurses by in-person and social media interventions in the workplace

“…As part of a trial [18], a community randomized-control trial study was conducted to develop and evaluate intervention based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model on promoting behaviors of low back health via two educational approaches including social media and in-person education approaches. The study was adopted from the declaration of Helsinki and received ethical approval from the Human Ethics Committee at the University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran (IR.…”