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KMID : 0381320020410020049
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
2002 Volume.41 No. 2 p.49 ~ p.62
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Review on Occupational Low Back Pain of Hospital Nurses and Manufacturing Workers in Korea
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Abstract
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This article reviewed studies of occupational low back pains (LBPs) and work-related factors among hospital nurses and manufacturing workers. The main purpose was to obtain basic data for preventing work-related LBPs and developing health care policies and regulations related to LBP& We analysed 11 studies of hospital nurses and 9 studies of manufacturing workers, which were published from 1977 to 2000 in Korea.
From these studies, it was found that the lifetime prevalence rates of LBP among hospital nurses were 72.3 to 81.6%, while those for manufacturing workers were 52.9 to 68.6%. Among nurses, the 20-29 age group showed the highest LBP prevalence rate, while it was the 30-40 year-old group for manufacturing workers. The highest Prevalence rates were found among manufacturing workers with sitting positions, and among hospital nurses with standing position over 7 hours a day.
For nurses, tasks of patients handling and postures related to patient-transfer such as reaching, lifting, pushing, and pulling were highly correlated with the occurrence of LBP& For manufacturing workers, occurrences of LBPs were correlated highly with material handling tasks with >25 kg weight and >50 numbers of repetitions. But for nurses, transfer of heavy objects weighing more than 10, kg was highly correlated with LBP occurrence.
Since previous studies were focused merely on the occurrences of LBPs, future studies of occupational LBPs among nurses should address those factors that are related to the development of LBPs. And more objective evaluation tools such as ergonomic job/task analysis or postural analyses using 3D or computer/video techniques should be utilized In addition, studies on the development of LBP prevention programs and eval,%ating effectiveness of ergonomic intervention programs are needed.
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