EPIDEMIOLOGY OF BACK PAIN IN NURSING PERSONNEL

本计画是一项关于医院背痛的流行病学研究 护理人员。 卫生工作者，特别是护理人员， 据报道，有更高的风险，背部受伤比其他 职业群体。 护理人员背痛的发生对护理人员的影响 不仅是患者的福祉，而且，通过引起疾病， 缺席或限制工作活动，影响医院的能力， 照顾病人。 拟议研究的具体目标是确定和 量化与以下方面有关的个人和工作场所特征： 新的和反复发作的背痛。 实现这些目标将 有助于实现开发、实施和 评估预防背部损伤和减少 背部疼痛的残疾。 该项目是一项调查后续研究， 结合了横断面和队列研究的特点。 医院 护理人员将进行问卷调查，以确定 人口统计学特征、健康史、职业史，以及 目前工作的特点和背痛史。 此外该 病假和工伤的频率将 监测。 西奈山附属医院护理部门的参与 将被邀请。 到目前为止，西奈山和联合医院 疾病/矫形研究所，其中包括大约2 000名护士 人员，将参加。 这代表了足够大的样本 检测与中度增加背痛风险相关的因素。

The proposed project is an epidemiologic study of back pain in hospital nursing personnel. Health workers, and particularly nursing personnel, have been reported to have a higher risk of back injury than other occupational groups. Episodes of back pain in nursing personnel affect not only the well-being of the sufferers, but also, by causing sickness absences or restricted job activities, impinge on the hospital's ability to care for its patients. The specific aims of the proposed research are the identification and quantification of personal and workplace characteristics associated with new and recurrent episodes of back pain. Accomplishment of these aims will be useful toward the long-term goal of developing, implementing, and evaluating programs for prevention of back injury and reduction of disability from back pain. The project is a survey follow-up study, which combines features of the cross-sectional and the cohort study. Hospital nursing personnel will be surveyed by questionnaire to determine demographic characteristics, health history, occupational history, and characteristics of current job, and history of back pain. In addition, the frequency of sickness absence and work-related job injuries will be monitored. Participation of nursing departments of Mount Sinai affiliated hospitals will be invited. To date, Mount Sinai and the Hospital for Joint Diseases/Orthopaedic Institute, which include approximately 2000 nursing personnel, will participate. This represents a sample of sufficient size to detect factors associated with moderately increased risk of back pain.