Lower Back Pain as an Occupational Hazard Among Ugandan Health Workers.

ABSTRACT: Background: Lower back pain is a public health concern affecting 70-85% of the world's population. There is paucity of published data on the prevalence, disability and risk factors for lower back pain among health workers in Uganda. Objective: To determine the frequency rate (note that is it implicit that frequency is a rate like incidence so including rate seems redundant here. This is bounded by zero and infinity. In contrast, prevalence is bounded by 0 and 1 and is thus a proportion not a rate) of lower back pain and its associated risks amongst health professionals in the Arua District of Uganda. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study of 245 consecutive participants conducted during February-April 2020. We stratified risks as individual or work related and anal

SUBMITTER: Aleku M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671744 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature