Tarbiat Modares University International Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain Prevention 2476-5279 3 4 2018 12 01 The effect of an educational Intervention on low back pain preventive behavior among nursing students: A pre-posted designed study 102 106 20108 EN Reza Maghbouli Medicine Faculty, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. Seyedeh-Somayeh Kazemi School of Musculoskeletal Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. and Diseases Unit, Chaloos Health Network, Chaloos, Iran Ahmad Reza Jamshidi Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Rheumatology Research Center, Tehran, Iran. Journal Article 1970 01 01 <strong style="text-align: justify;"><span>Aims: </span></strong><span>Low Back Pain (LBP) is a cosly, recurrent and prevalent health problem among nurses. This sudy aimed to explore the effect of a multidimensional education program on changing unhealthy behaviors of nurses. </span><br> <strong style="text-align: justify;"><span>Insrument & Methods: </span></strong><span>This pre-posed designed sudy was carried out on 34 nursing sudents. Interventional program was accomplished in a three-hour session, in which the participants were familiar with musculoskeletal sysem, the right posures of this sysem, occupational factors which may cause skeletal LBP, skills of doing back exercise behaviors. The second and third hour of this session mentally factors influencing on LBP, the ways and techniques to manage daily sresses as well as healthy social skills in lifetime were discussed. The demographic and behavior quesionnaires were flled at pre and pos intervention. The data were entered into SPSS and analyzed through the paired T-Test.</span><br style="text-align: justify;"> <strong style="text-align: justify;"><span>Findings: </span></strong><span>Of 34 nursing sudents, 27 sudents with mean age of 22.44±2.76 completed the sudy. At 2- month follow up, the participants did back exercise signifcantly compared to initial of the sudy (p=0.003). Furthermore, keeping healthy posure of vertebra while walking and sanding were signifcantly better than before intervention (p=0.001 and p=0.05 respectively).</span><br style="text-align: justify;"> <strong style="text-align: justify;"><span>Conclusion: </span></strong><span>This sudy revealed that the educational intervention could be resulted in healthy behaviors of the nursing sudents to prevent LBP.</span> https://ijmpp.modares.ac.ir/article_20108_e2bd1aedcca34c1460557619b293af86.pdf