A survey of perceived disability and contributing risk factors for low back pain amongst nurses in Rwanda

• Main Author: Ndagijimana, Pierre Claver
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Work related low back pain; Low back pain; Nurses; Risk factors; Prevalence; Disability; Prevention; Intervention; Rwanda.
• Online Access: http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5350_1325679822

A descriptive quantitative cross-sectional survey using convenience sampling was used to gather data with a self-administered questionnaire on a sample of 226 nurses. The study population included all registered nurses of Kabgayi District Hospital and Nyanza District Hospitals and their respective health centers. To be included, the nurses had to have suffered from WRLBP during the previous 6 months before data collection. The Nordic Back Pain Questionnaire, the Oswestry Disability Index and an open-ended questionnaire regarding perceived risk factors have been used. Descriptive statistics to summarize data and inferential statistics such as chi- square test to test the relationship between different variables of the study have been studied at 5% levels. Correlation coefficients in terms of cross-tabulation were also studied at 1% level of significance.