|
KMID : 0123520140210030165
|
|
Journal of muscle and joint health
2014 Volume.21 No. 3 p.165 ~ p.172
|
|
|
Effects of Postural Habits and Stress on Low Back Pain in Nursing Students
|
|
Kim Ji-Soo
Choi Jeong-Sil
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify effects of postural habits and stress on low back pain experienced by nursing students.
Methods: The survey was conducted with 282 students at 5 nursing schools in Seoul, Incheon, Chungcheongbuk, and Jeollabuk Province. Data were collected from October, 2013 to January, 2014. Data analyses including descriptive analysis, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients, and multiple regression were performed using SPSS 21.0.
Results: In multiple regression, habit of standing on force of one feet (β=.23, p<.001), habit of sleeping on one"s back (β=-.19, p=.020), habit of resting the chin on one"s hands (β=.15, p=.029), and habit of carrying a bag on one shoulder (β=.12, p=.011) were associated with low back pain experienced by nursing students. These factors accounted for 12.9% of the variance in the low back pain in undergraduate students.
Conclusion: These results suggest that low back pain in nursing students are related to their habits of posture in daily life. Therefore, intervention program to encourage healthy postural habits can be effective to prevent low back pain in nursing students.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Low back pain, Posture, Nursing, Students
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|