Socio-psychological stressors as risk factors for low back pain in Chinese middle-aged women

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 409-416

  Yip, Yin Bing ^a   Ho, Suzanne C ^b   Chan, Sieu Gaen ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Case control study; Low hack pain; Middle aged women; Socio psychological stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MENOPAUSE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORK;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOW BACK PAIN; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORK;

EID: 0035514719     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01988.x     Document Type: Article

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