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September 10, 2025Nepal Medical Journal0 citationsOpen Access

Prevalence of Low Back Pain among Nurses in a Tertiary Care Centre

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ADArjun Prasad DumreNANarayan Prasad AdhikariSLShankar Laudari

Key Points

  • Prevalence of low back pain among nurses was found to be 74.6%, with most reporting pain lasting less than 12 months.
  • Statistical analysis indicated significant associations between low back pain and marital status, duty hours, and working area (p<0.05).
  • The Rolland Morris Disability Questionnaire revealed a mean disability score of 3.6, suggesting low to moderate disability among affected nurses.
  • The study underscores the need for preventive measures and better work conditions to address musculoskeletal health issues in nursing.

Abstract

Introduction: Low back pain (LBP) is defined as pain that occurs between the area of costal margin and gluteal fold. Low back pain is one of the common musculoskeletal health problems occuring mostly in nurses. Different research has shown that the association between low back pain and nurses is because of various factors. Disability because of pain leads to decreased quality of life for nurses and ultimately leading to decreased quality of patient care. This study was conducted to find the prevalence and associated factors of low back pain among nurses of Nepal Police Hospital. Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was done among nurses of various departments of Nepal Police Hospital. An email with a questionnaire was sent to the participants, and responses were recorded. Rolland Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ-11 item) was used to assess disability related to low back pain. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 26 was used for the analysis of data. Descriptive statistics (percentage and frequency) and inferential statistics (chi-square) were used for the statistical analysis of the study. Significance level of P-value was taken as 60 hours a week. Most had a low disability as per RMDQ. Rest alleviated back pain in most of the cases. Only few had practice of doing back exercises at preventive measure.

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Dumre et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1a78854b1d3bfb60e13achttps://doi.org/10.37080/nmj.246
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