Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: April | Volume: 11 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 153-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20210420
Association of Mechanical Low Back Pain and Quality of Life in Security Guards
Mansi Manoj Mulye1, Hally Shah2, Asmaa Shaikh2
1Assistant Professor, School of Occupational Therapy, D.Y. Patil University, Nerul, Navi Mumbai.
2Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, D.Y. Patil University, Nerul, Navi Mumbai.
Corresponding Author: Mansi Manoj Mulye
ABSTRACT
Musculoskeletal Pain affects the bones & soft tissue musculatures. It can be acute or chronic. It can be localized or widespread. Lower back pain (LBP) is the most common type of musculoskeletal pain. It is one of the causes of absenteeism of employees from their work and significantly affecting their quality of life (QoL). Security guards usually involves standing for long duration. Therefore LBP is quite common in them. Changes in posture or poor body mechanics may bring about spine related problems, therefore causing other muscles to be misused and become painful. Very few literatures are available worldwide on prevalence of mechanical LBP & its relation to the QoL in standing workers. Therefore, the aim is to find out the correlation of mechanical LBP and QoL in security guards. Cross sectional study design was chosen for the research. From ninety security guards (male & female, aged 30-50 years) were screened on Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire (CMDQ). Thirty-one security guards were selected after screening, those who met the inclusion criteria (1.5 and above on CMDQ for lower back), informed consent was taken and further assessed on Oswestry LBP Disability Questionnaire (OLBPDQ) and World Health Organization QoL-BREF (WHO-QoL-BREF). In the study, moderately negative correlation was found between the OLBPDQ score & all QoL domains (-0.3, -0.1, -0.5, -0.2), which showed a significant lower QoL domains with severe LBP.
Key words: Mechanical Lower back pain, Standing workers, Quality of life.