Analysis of the impact of sedentary occupation on damaging the back
Authors:
J. Ravasová; I. Bátora
Authors‘ workplace:
Klinika pracovného lekárstva a toxikológie LFUK a FNsP Bratislava, prednosta kliniky doc. MUDr. Igor Bátora, PhD.
Published in:
Pracov. Lék., 62, 2010, No. 2, s. 59-63.
Category:
Original Papers
Overview
Back diseases belong to the most monitored area of locomotor apparatus diseases in clinical occupational medicine. Published papers so far were mostly dealing with diseases of hard workers. Recently, there is a growing amount of white collar workers with sedentary work.
This paper presents the analysis of an anonymous study of PC workers. The questionnaire included questions to consider relevant risk factors for back diseases. Economists, computer programmers, high school teachers and students were asked to fill up the questionnaire. The analyses show that back diseases can be caused not only by risk factors typical for hard work, but also by long sedentary work with the neck pain and low back pain as the most usual diseases. The statistically significant influence of age and psychosocial factors like work satisfaction, salary satisfaction or employment relationship satisfaction on back pain presence was also confirmed.
Key words:
occupational risk factors, back pain
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