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- Title
Predictors of Back Pain in Firefighters.
- Authors
Damrongsak, Mantana; Prapanjaroensin, Aoyjai; Brown, Kathleen C.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify variables—that is, demographic factors (age, history of back pain, body mass index [BMI], and waist circumference), occupational stress, job satisfaction, perceived supervisor support, and physical fitness—that predict back pain in firefighters. Firefighters, an occupational group at high risk for back injury, perform many job tasks under hazardous work conditions. A nonexperimental, correlational design was used to study a convenience sample of 298 male firefighters who completed study questionnaires. Almost one third (30.20%) of the firefighters reported current back pain. The set of factors that predicted current back pain in firefighters included occupational stress, age, history of back pain, and BMI—pseudo R2 = .351. Further studies should validate the model and explore relationships among perceived supervisor support, occupational stress, and job satisfaction in other occupational groups, including nurses and police officers.
- Subjects
RISK of backache; AGE distribution; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; FIRE fighters; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; JOB satisfaction; JOB stress; PHYSICAL fitness; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; OCCUPATIONAL hazards; MULTIPLE regression analysis; SOCIAL support; BODY mass index; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Workplace Health & Safety, 2018, Vol 66, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
2165-0799
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2165079917709020