Prevalence and risk factors associated with low back pain among health care providers in a Kuwait Hospital

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Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 539-545

  Landry, Michel D ^a,b,c   Raman, Sudha R ^b   Sulway, Christopher ^a,c   Golightly, Yvonne M ^b   Hamdan, Elham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b IL   (United States)

^c Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Education prevention; Health care workers; Low back pain; Occupational injuries; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; BIOMECHANICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITAL; KUWAIT; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; KUWAIT; LIFTING; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 41049097131     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181657df7     Document Type: Article

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