31, July 2025
A STUDY TO ASSESS PREVALENCE AND ITS MANAGEMENT REGARDING LOW BACK PAIN AMONG NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITAL, BUTWAL.
Author(s): 1 NABINA SINGH, 2 MR PRAVEEN SHARMA
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1Nursing lecturer, Child Health Nursing , Mayadevi Technical College, Butwal, Nepal
2 , Associate Professor, Child Health Nursing, SGRRIM&HS, Dehradun, India
DOIs:10.2017/IJRCS/202507023 | Paper ID: IJRCS202507023Abstract
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND
Low back pain (LBP) is a public health problem worldwide and is a common cause of work-related disorder among health care workers, especially in the nursing profession. It is estimated that in the United Kingdom, each year 12% of nursing personnel will consider a job transfer to reduce their LBP and another 12% – 18% will actually leave the nursing profession because of chronic back pain. LBP among nurses has become global problem these days. Nurses have six times higher prevalence of back trouble in comparison with other health professionals. There are very limited studies conducted on LBP among nurses of Nepal .So this study was conducted to identify the prevalence and perceived causes of low back and its impact among nurses working in national heart centres.
METHODOLOGY:
A descriptive research design; non-probability sampling technique was conducted on January 2022 on 60 nurses of Lumbini zonal hospital and Gautam Buddha Community Heart Hospital, Butwal. The data was collected through self administered questionnaire technique. The analysis was done using SPSS version.
Keywords: Prevalence of low back pain, management of low back pain, staff nurses of I.C.U,C.C.U, N.I.C.U and emergency.
NABINA SINGH, MR PRAVEEN SHARMA (2025); A STUDY TO ASSESS PREVALENCE AND ITS MANAGEMENT REGARDING LOW BACK PAIN AMONG NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITAL, BUTWAL., International Journal of Research Culture Society, ISSN(O): 2456-6683, Volume – 9, Issue – 7, Pp. 140-148. Available on – https://ijrcs.org/