Resumen
Introduction: Low back pain continues to be one of the main symptoms in personnel carrying out loads, but this was not widely investigated in the context of COVID-19. Objective: To determine the socio-occupational factors associated with low back pain in technicians and nurses of critical medical services who treated COVID-19 patients. Material and Methodos: Cross-sectional analytical study. Through a virtual survey, information was collected from the nursing staff of the general ICU, COVID-19 ICU and Traumatology services of a Social Security hospital in Lima-Peru. The main variable was low back pain, this was crossed with other variables of interest through descriptive and analytical statistics. Results: Of the 265 responses, 62% (165) reported having low back pain. In the multivariate model, it was found that there was a greater suffering from low back pain according to having more years of work (RPa: 1,03; CI: 95%: 1,01-1,06; p-value=0,008) and if they had previously had a work disability (RPa: 1.45; 95% CI: 1.25-1.68; p-value=<0.001), on the other hand, the older the respondents, the less low back pain (RPa: 0.97; CI95%: 0.95-0.99; p value=0.0013), adjusted for five variables. Discussion: The majority of respondents had low back pain, being associated with more years of work, having previously had a work disability and age. This situation may be repeating itself in similar populations, so occupational health services should carry out evaluations and interventions to improve this reality.
Título traducido de la contribución | SOCIO-OCCUPATIONAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW BACK PAIN IN TECHNICIANS AND NURSES WHO ATTENDED COVID-19 PATIENTS IN PERU |
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Idioma original | Español |
Páginas (desde-hasta) | 146-154 |
Número de páginas | 9 |
Publicación | Revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo |
Volumen | 31 |
N.º | 2 |
Estado | Publicada - 1 jun. 2022 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
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Palabras clave
- Low back pain
- Peru
- nurses
- occupational health