Prevalence and correlates of regional pain and associated disability in Japanese workers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the prevalence and correlates of regional pain and associated disability in four groups of Japanese workers.

Methods

As part of a large international survey of musculoskeletal symptoms (the CUPID study), nurses, office workers, sales/marketing personnel and transportation operatives in Japan completed a self-administered questionnaire (response rate 83%) covering experience of pain in six anatomical regions, associated disability and sickness absence, and various possible occupational and psychosocial risk factors for these outcomes. Associations with risk factors were assessed by logistic regression.

Results

Analysis was based on 2290 subjects. Rates of regional pain were generally less than in the UK, with a particularly low prevalence of wrist/

SUBMITTER: Matsudaira K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3088869 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature