How Iranian Individuals who Suffered from Low Back Pain Describe their Disabilities? A descriptive study from Zanjan, Iran

Document Type : Descriptive & Survey

Authors
R. Maghbouli 1
M. H. Purmemari 2
N. Moatamed 3
1 Faculty of Medicine, Zanjan Univer- sity of Medical Science, Zanjan, Iran; Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
2 Department of Biological Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Med- icine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
3 Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medi- cal Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
10.22034/ijmpp.8.2.882
Abstract
Aim: These disorders are frequently cause inability that limits the performances and productivity of the suffered people. This study aimed to explore how Iranian low back pain suffered describe their disabilities.

Method and Materials: This research is a descriptive study by which the studied participants who suffered from low back pain described how they were disable to do their daily activities. To do this study, the written consent form were signed by the participants if they were satisfied to be studied. Then these participant were provided with demographic and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). Six sections of this questionnaire which were related to usual daily activities were completed by the participants. Completed data were entered into the SPSS and analyzed through descriptive statistics.

Findings: In this study 238 eligible participants including 159 female with mean age of (40.06±13.22) and 79 male with mean age of (35.56±16.12) be studied. According the finding of this study majority of the participants stated that they suffered from pain and due disability regarding daily activity such as lifting, walking, siting, standing, and personal care.

Conclusion: This study showed the majority of Iranian participants suffered from disability for doing their daily activities due to their low back pain. Therefor, doing further researches to verify the results and designing proper intervention is strongly recommended.

Keywords

Subjects

Lim MC, Lukman KA, Giloi N, Lim JF, Avoi R, Syed Abdul Rahim SS, et al. Prevalence of upper limb musculoskeletal disorders and its associated risk factors among janitorial workers: A cross-sectional study. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2021;73:103201. [DOI:10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103201]
Factors predicting stretching exercise behaviors of office employees working in the Shahid Behesti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran.
Cieza A., Causey K., Kamenov K., Hanson SW., Chatterji S., Vos T. Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the global burden of disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study. Lancet 2019;396. [DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32340-0]
Andrews P, Steultjens M, Riskowski J. Chronic widespread pain prevalence in the general population: a systematic review. Euro J Pain. 2018;22:5-18. [DOI:10.1002/ejp.1090]
Delshad MH, Tavafian SS, Kazemnejad A. Educational intervention for promoting stretching exercise behavior among a sample of Iranian office employees: applying the Health Promotion Model. J Pain Res. 2019;12:733-742 [DOI:10.2147/JPR.S183410]
Norouzi S, Tavafian SS, Cousins R, Mokarami H. Understanding risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders in Iranian housewives: Development of a comprehensive health promotion behavior model. BMC Public Health. 2023;23(1):617. [DOI:10.1186/s12889-023-15518-w]
Shahrezaee, M., Keshtkari, S., Moradi-Lakeh, M. Abbasifard M, Alipoor V, Amini S. Burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Iran during 1990-2017: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Arch Osteoporos, 103 (2020). [DOI:10.1007/s11657-020-00767-8]
Vianin M. Psychometric properties and clinical usefulness of the Oswestry Disability Index. J Chiropr Med. 163-161:)4(7;2008 [DOI:10.1016/j.jcm.2008.07.001]
Baradaran A, Ebrahimzadeh MH, Birjandinejad A, Kachooei AR. Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Validation, and Reliability Testing of the Modified Oswestry Disability Questionnaire in Persian Population with Low Back Pain. Asian Spine J. 2016;10(2):215-9. [DOI:10.4184/asj.2016.10.2.215]
Ahlgren C, Malmgren Olsson E-B, Brulin C. Gender analysis of muscu- loskeletal disorders and emotional exhaustion: interactive effects from physical and psychosocial work exposures and engagement in domestic work. Ergonomics. 2012;55:212-28 [DOI:10.1080/00140139.2011.646319]
Mishra M, Srivastava AK, Srivastava VK. Prevalence and risk of musculo skeletal pain in rural homemakers of North India. Med J Dr DY Patil Uni.2017;10:138.. [DOI:10.4103/0975-2870.202092]
Gupta G, Nandini N. Prevalence of low back pain in non-working rural housewives of Kanpur, India. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2015;28:313-20. [DOI:10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00299]
Habib RR, El Zein K, Hojeij S. Hard work at home: musculoskeletal pain among female homemakers. Ergonomics. 2012;55:201-11 [DOI:10.1080/00140139.2011.574157]
Davatchi F, Sandoughi M, Moghimi N, Jamshidi AR, Tehrani Banihashemi A, Zakeri Z, et al. Epidemiology of rheumatic diseases in Iran from analysis of four COPCORD studies. Int J Rheum Dis. 2016;19(11):1056-1062. [DOI:10.1111/1756-185X.12809]
International Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain Prevention
Volume 8, Issue 2
May 2023
Pages 882-886