Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.

Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.

It is well known that low back pain among working population is a global problem throughout the world. However, the current situation of occupational low back pain in Malaysia is still vague due to limited number of studies conducted locally. A cross sectional study was conducted among three auto...

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Main Authors: Noor Sazarina Mad Isa @ Yahya, Baba Md Deros, Mazrura Sahani, Ahmad Rasdan Ismail
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2013
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7129/
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spelling ukm-71292016-12-14T06:43:10Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7129/ Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia. Noor Sazarina Mad Isa @ Yahya, Baba Md Deros, Mazrura Sahani, Ahmad Rasdan Ismail, It is well known that low back pain among working population is a global problem throughout the world. However, the current situation of occupational low back pain in Malaysia is still vague due to limited number of studies conducted locally. A cross sectional study was conducted among three automotive industry workers in Selangor, Malaysia from October 2010 to April 2011. This study aims to determine the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain among automotive industry workers performing manual material handling tasks using self-administered questionnaire survey. A modified Standardised Nordic Questionnaire was used to assess low back pain problem, to obtain personal and psychosocial risk factors information. The prevalence of low back pain showed increment in the point prevalence of 57.9%, 49.5%, and 35.1 % for 12 months, one month, and of 7 days respectively. Working hour, frequency of overtime, stress at work, work pace, and faster movement were found to be significantly associated with the 12 months prevalence for low back pain. This finding indicates that psychosocial risk factors are associated to the occurrence of low back pain. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2013-12-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7129/1/vol_4_no_1_2014_53.pdf Noor Sazarina Mad Isa @ Yahya, and Baba Md Deros, and Mazrura Sahani, and Ahmad Rasdan Ismail, (2013) Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia. International Journal of Public Health Research, 4 (1). pp. 412-418. ISSN 2232-0245
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description It is well known that low back pain among working population is a global problem throughout the world. However, the current situation of occupational low back pain in Malaysia is still vague due to limited number of studies conducted locally. A cross sectional study was conducted among three automotive industry workers in Selangor, Malaysia from October 2010 to April 2011. This study aims to determine the prevalence and risk factors of low back pain among automotive industry workers performing manual material handling tasks using self-administered questionnaire survey. A modified Standardised Nordic Questionnaire was used to assess low back pain problem, to obtain personal and psychosocial risk factors information. The prevalence of low back pain showed increment in the point prevalence of 57.9%, 49.5%, and 35.1 % for 12 months, one month, and of 7 days respectively. Working hour, frequency of overtime, stress at work, work pace, and faster movement were found to be significantly associated with the 12 months prevalence for low back pain. This finding indicates that psychosocial risk factors are associated to the occurrence of low back pain.
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author Noor Sazarina Mad Isa @ Yahya,
Baba Md Deros,
Mazrura Sahani,
Ahmad Rasdan Ismail,
spellingShingle Noor Sazarina Mad Isa @ Yahya,
Baba Md Deros,
Mazrura Sahani,
Ahmad Rasdan Ismail,
Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.
author_facet Noor Sazarina Mad Isa @ Yahya,
Baba Md Deros,
Mazrura Sahani,
Ahmad Rasdan Ismail,
author_sort Noor Sazarina Mad Isa @ Yahya,
title Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.
title_short Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.
title_full Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.
title_fullStr Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.
title_full_unstemmed Personal and Psychosocial Risk Factor for Low Back Pain among Automotive Manual Handling Workers in Selangor, Malaysia.
title_sort personal and psychosocial risk factor for low back pain among automotive manual handling workers in selangor, malaysia.
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2013
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7129/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7129/1/vol_4_no_1_2014_53.pdf
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