Factors associated with back pain in nursing staff: A survey in Athens, Greece

International Journal of Nursing Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-20

  Vasiliadou, Aspasia ^a   Karvountzis, Gerasimos ^b   Roumeliotis, Dimitrios ^b   Soumilas, Agisilaos ^b   Plati, Chrisanthy ^b   Nomikos, Iakovos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Back injury; Back pain; Greece; Lifting; Occupational diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD;

BACK PAIN; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0031089893     PISSN: 13227114     EISSN: 1440172X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-172X.1997.00015.pp.x     Document Type: Article

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