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The NIOSH Lifting Equation and Low-Back Pain, Part 1 ; Association With Low-Back Pain in the BackWorks Prospective Cohort Study

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العنوان: The NIOSH Lifting Equation and Low-Back Pain, Part 1 ; Association With Low-Back Pain in the BackWorks Prospective Cohort Study
المؤلفون: Garg, Arun, Boda, Sruthi, Hegmann, Kurt T., Moore, J. Steven, Kapellusch, Jay M., Bhoyar, Parag, Thiese, Matthew S., Merryweather, Andrew, Deckow-Schaefer, Gwen, Bloswick, Donald, Malloy, Elizabeth J.
المصدر: Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society ; volume 56, issue 1, page 6-28 ; ISSN 0018-7208 1547-8181
بيانات النشر: SAGE Publications
سنة النشر: 2013
مصطلحات موضوعية: Behavioral Neuroscience, Applied Psychology, Human Factors and Ergonomics
الوصف: Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate relationships between the revised NIOSH lifting equation (RNLE) and risk of low-back pain (LBP). Background: The RNLE is commonly used to quantify job physical stressors to the low back from lifting and/or lowering of loads. There is no prospective study on the relationship between RNLE and LBP that includes accounting for relevant covariates. Method: A cohort of 258 incident-eligible workers from 30 diverse facilities was followed for up to 4.5 years. Job physical exposures were individually measured. Worker demographics, medical history, psychosocial factors, hobbies, and current LBP were obtained at baseline. The cohort was followed monthly to ascertain development of LBP and quarterly to determine changes in job physical exposure. The relationship between LBP and peak lifting index (PLI) and peak composite lifting index (PCLI) were tested in multivariate models using proportional hazards regression. Results: Point and lifetime prevalences of LBP at baseline were 7.1% and 75.1%, respectively. During follow-up, there were 123 incident LBP cases. Factors predicting development of LBP included job physical exposure (PLI and PCLI), history of LBP, psychosocial factors, and housework. In adjusted models, risk (hazard ratio [HR]) increased per-unit increase in PLI and PCLI ( p = .05 and .02; maximum HR = 4.3 and 4.2, respectively). PLI suggested a continuous increase in risk with an increase in PLI, whereas the PCLI showed elevated, but somewhat reduced, risk at higher exposures. Conclusion: Job physical stressors are associated with increased risk of LBP. Data suggest that the PLI and PCLI are useful metrics for estimating exposure to job physical stressors.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813486669
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720813486669Test
حقوق: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-licenseTest
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.C4736F87
قاعدة البيانات: BASE