%0 Journal Article
%T A Cross
%A Hongxia Zhang
%A Hui Yang
%A Jiali Chen
%A Jiping Li
%A Lingli Li
%A Ning Ning
%A Xiaofan Deng
%A Xiaoling Hou
%J Workplace Health & Safety
%@ 2165-0969
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2165079918807231
%X The study aimed to gain knowledge about low back pain (LBP) in nurses working in the orthopedic departments of tertiary hospitals in Sichuan province, China. We used a cross-sectional survey to examine the prevalence of LBP among 797 inpatient nurses who had worked for 1 year in an orthopedic department in one of 29 hospitals (Grade 3A) in Sichuan province. The survey included a questionnaire to determine the prevalence of LBP and factors related to LBP, a screening graph of LBP symptoms, the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ), and the Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) for LBP. The 1-year period prevalence of LBP in the nursing population was 66.8% and the point prevalence was 51.3%. Among the 523 nurses who had experienced LBP, the mean total number of days that LBP had been experienced during the past year was 20.2 ¡À 16.3 days (range = 1-90 days). The annual number of episodes of LBP was 5.7 ¡À 4.5 times/year (range = 1-20 times/year). More than half the orthopedic nurses (51.1%) planned to quit, and 5.8% thought of leaving their job due to LBP. These study findings indicate that nurses in this region experience a burden of LBP similar to those in other regions in the world
%K nursing
%K low back pain
%K orthopedic nurse
%K cross-sectional survey
%K occupational injuries
%K prevalence studies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2165079918807231