Prevention of low back pain and its consequences among nurses' aides in elderly care: A stepped-wedge multi-faceted cluster-randomized controlled trial

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard ^a,c   Holtermann, Andreas ^a   Mortensen, Ole Steen ^a,b   Søgaard, Karen ^c   Jørgensen, Marie Birk ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b KØGE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive behavioral training; Health care workers; Musculoskeletal disorders; Participatory ergonomics; Physical training; Workplace intervention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING ASSISTANT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT LIFTING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LINEAR MODELS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVING AND LIFTING PATIENTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSES' AIDES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PRIMARY PREVENTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84887863833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1088     Document Type: Article

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