Prevalence of low back pain in three occupational groups in Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jin, Kezhi; Sorock, Gary S.; Courtney, Theodore K.

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2003.11.002

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“…Convenient school environment can be described as having sufficient space for the teachers and students for activities and to place ergonomically designed furniture in classroom and teachers' room. Smoking showed a trend of increased risk for low back pain (OR 1.32, 95% CI 0.62-2.80) which was consistent with other studies (Jin et al, 2004;Lei et al, 2004;Scott et al, 1999) However, Scott et al (1999) suggested that data on smoking initiation and patterns of smoking were needed for the causality to be made.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…This study showed similar prevalence with the Chinese school teachers (Jin et al, 2004). In this study, female teachers showed a significantly higher prevalence of low back pain (48.1%) than men (39.6%).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…A study on low back pain among school personnel in Japan also showed the same result (23.2%) of a higher prevalence among women (Tsuboi et al, 2002). Previous studies suggested that gender differences occurred because women were more likely to report any pain problem than men as women tended to have a lower pain threshold than men (Chiu and Lam, 2007;Jin et al, 2004).…”

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confidence: 59%

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Prevalence of Low Back Pain and its Risk Factors among School Teachers

Samad¹

2010

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Problem statement:The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of low back pain and the associated risk factors among primary school teachers in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Approach: A cross sectional study was conducted in nine primary schools in the Klang Valley. The schools were selected randomly from a list obtained from the Ministry of Education. Two hundred and seventy two respondents who fulfilled the study criteria volunteered to participate in the study. A questionnaire was used to determine the demographic and occupational information.

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Prevalence of Low Back Pain and its Risk Factors among School Teachers

Samad¹

2010

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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“…In China, WMSDs are still not included as occupational disease compensation claims by law, and thus the exact prevalence of WMSDs is not well-known in China. According to two existent studies, Jin et al 4) have reported the overall selfreported annual prevalence of low back pain was 50%, while a study by Chen et al 5) indicated that the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain over the previous 12 months var-ied between 7.5% for elbow pain and 32% for low back pain. However, the generalizability of the results is limited because these studies were based on small sample sizes sampled in a single company.…”

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Job Strain, Effort-reward Imbalance and Neck, Shoulder and Wrist Symptoms among Chinese Workers

Nakata

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Ind Health

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The purpose of this study was to examine the association between psychosocial job stress (by the Job Control-Demand (JCD) model and Effort-Reward imbalance (ERI) model) and musculoskeletal (MS) symptoms among workers in China. Overall, 3,632 male and 1,706 female workers from 13 factories/companies participated in this study. Perceived job stress was evaluated by the Chinese version of the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) and ERI Questionnaire. Neck, shoulder and wrist symptoms were assessed by self-report during the past year. Workers reporting high job demands and low job control or high effort and low rewards had moderately increased risk for all MS symptoms. Odds ratios (ORs) were higher in workers reporting both high effort and low rewards. The combination of high physical job demands with low job control showed significant associations with MS symptoms. The effects of psychological demands on symptoms in women, effort and effort-reward imbalance on symptoms among both genders were increased as the number of regions with symptoms increased. These results suggest that high job strain and ERI are associated with neck, shoulder and wrist symptoms in Chinese factory workers independent of individual factors, physical factors, and other psychological variables.

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“…Low back pain (LBP) is a significant problem in many countries (Goubert et al, 2004;Jin et al, 2004;Walker et al, 2004), in addition to suffering and func tional limitation, it places an economic burden on both the individual and the state (Korthals de Bos et al, 2004;Luo et al, 2004;Lutz et al, 2003;Woolf and Pfleger, 2003). Lifetime incidences can be as high as 80% (Santos Eggimann et al, 2000) and in many countries a large percentage of the health budget is utilized on managing LBP (Santos Eggimann et al, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%