Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard Among Ugandan ...

The frequency rate of low back pain was high amongst health workers and its main associated individual and work related factors could have been prevented.

Background: Lower back pain is a public health concern affecting 70–85% of the world's population. There is paucity of published data on the prevalence, ...

The prevalence of occupational-related low back pain among ...

In this study, a total of 970 articles were retrieved, and 35 studies were included in the systematic review and meta-analysis. The overall ...

Managing Low Back Pain in Rural Uganda: A Qualitative Study ...

Low-back pain (LBP) is the main cause of years lived with disabilities (YLDs) worldwide and the second cause of YLDs in Uganda [1–2]. It ...

The Frequency of Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard ...

In addition, these findings are comparable to the results found in the. Ugandan study of health workers at Mulago hospital that reported 68% ...

Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard Among Ugandan ...

There is paucity of published data on the prevalence, disability and risk factors for lower back pain among health workers in Uganda. Objective: To determine ...

Lower back pain amongst medical trainees in clinical rotations

Methods: A multi-center cross-sectional study of 387 randomly selected clinical-phase students was conducted in three Ugandan medical schools, ...

The back, neck, shoulders, and upper limbs account for more than 50% of global MSD cases [2, 6, 7]. Low back and neck pain were in 2017 the ...

(PDF) The prevalence of Occupational-related low back pain among ...

Based on a sub-group analysis by countries where the studies were conducted, the higher pooled prevalence of low back pain was found in Uganda ...

Occupational Health Hazards among Healthcare Workers in ...

Overall, 50.0% of respondents reported experiencing an occupational health hazard. Among these, 39.5% experienced biological hazards while 31.5% experienced ...

Assessment of the prevalence and associated factors of lower back ...

Results The prevalence of LBP was found to be 42.7% among the participants. Farmers and rickshaw pullers had approximately four-times and three-times higher ...

Disability associated with low back pain in Mulago Hospital ...

The results confirm that low back pain is a significant cause of disability affecting the productive middle years of adult life and causes significant ...

Epidemiology: Open Access - CABI Digital Library

Presently, there is limited data on the prevalence of low back pain and the possible risk factors among healthcare workers in Uganda, and this is representing a ...

Low-back pain. - Semantic Scholar

Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard Among Ugandan Health Workers · Medicine. Frontiers in Public Health · 2021.

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Prevalence of Lower Back Pain and Associated Workplace ... - MDPI

Lower back pain is a common occurrence among mine workers due to the nature of their work. Globally, workplace (occupational) and ergonomic risk factors ...

Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard Among Ugandan ...

Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard Among Ugandan Health Workers. Front Public Health. 2021;9:761765doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.761765. ... Aleku M, Nelson K, ...

Prevalence And Risk Factors Of Low Back Pain Among Nurses In ...

Background: The mechanical hazards in the hospitals include low back pain (LBP) from manual lifting (lifting patients in particular) which makes nursing one ...

Low back pain - World Health Organization (WHO)

Low back pain (LBP) has the highest prevalence globally among musculoskeletal conditions and is the leading cause of disability worldwide. It is ...

Prevalence of low back pain and associated factors among nurses ...

Low back pain is a prevalent musculoskeletal ailment that affects numerous individuals, particularly those in the workforce. Nurses, in particular ...