Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
School of Nursing, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Front Public Health. 2023 Mar 16;11:1103325. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1103325. eCollection 2023.
Nurses have a high prevalence of occupational low back pain, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has increased the nurses' workloads. It has brought a huge burden on nurses and their professional development. Nurses' occupational low back pain prevention capacity is the logical starting point and core of interventions to prevent its occurrence. To date, there is no study investigating it with a scientific scale. Therefore, a multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted to explore the current status of nurses' capacity in occupational low back pain prevention and its influencing factors in China.
Using a two-stage, purposive and convenience mixed sampling method, 1331 nurses from 8 hospitals across 5 provinces (Hubei, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, and Sichuan) in the southern, western, northern, and central areas of mainland China were involved in this study. The demographic questionnaire and occupational low back pain prevention behavior questionnaire were used for data collection. The descriptive analysis, univariate analysis, and multiple stepwise linear regression were used for data analysis.
The results showed that the occupational low back pain prevention behavior questionnaire score was 89.00 (80.00, 103.00) [M (Q1, Q3)], which indicated that nurses' ability was at a moderate level. Participation in prevention training before, perceived stress at work, and working hours per week were predictors for nurses' occupational low back pain prevention capacity.
To improve nurses' prevention ability, nursing managers should organize various training programs, strengthen regulations to reduce nurses' workload and stress, provide a healthy workplace, and offer incentives to motivate nurses.
护士职业性下背痛的患病率较高，尤其是在 COVID-19 大流行期间，这增加了护士的工作量，给护士及其职业发展带来了巨大负担。护士职业性下背痛预防能力是预防其发生的干预措施的逻辑起点和核心。迄今为止，尚无研究用科学量表对此进行调查。因此，进行了一项多中心横断面研究，以探讨中国护士职业性下背痛预防能力的现状及其影响因素。
采用两阶段、目的和便利混合抽样方法，共纳入来自中国内地 5 个省（湖北、浙江、山东、河南和四川）8 家医院的 1331 名护士。使用人口统计学问卷和职业性下背痛预防行为问卷收集数据。采用描述性分析、单因素分析和多元逐步线性回归进行数据分析。
结果显示，职业性下背痛预防行为问卷得分为 89.00（80.00，103.00）[M（Q1，Q3）]，表明护士的能力处于中等水平。预防培训的参与情况、工作压力知觉和每周工作时间是护士职业性下背痛预防能力的预测因素。
为了提高护士的预防能力，护理管理者应组织各种培训计划，加强规定以减少护士的工作量和压力，提供健康的工作场所，并提供激励措施来激励护士。
