Role of Psychosocial Risk Factors in work-related low-back Pain

The experience of low-back pain and its psychosocial associates were directly compared among sufferers drawn from three populations, a blue-collar working group, a white-collar working group, and a patient group. Sufferers drawn from the patient population revealed the expected psychological disturb...

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Published in:Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment ＆ Health Environment ＆ Health, 1992-12, Vol.18 (6), p.368-375
Main Authors: Feyer, Anne-Marie, Williamson, Ann, Mandryk, John, de Silva, Indira, Healy, Sandy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Back injuries
Back pain
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disabilities
Diseases of the osteoarticular system
Diseases of the spine
Female
Humans
Job Satisfaction
Low Back Pain - psychology
Male
Medical sciences
New South Wales
Nurses
Nursing
Occupational Diseases - psychology
Pain
Postal Service
Postal workers
Predisposing factors
Psychology
Questionnaires
Risk Factors
Social Class
Surveys and Questionnaires
Work environments
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Summary:The experience of low-back pain and its psychosocial associates were directly compared among sufferers drawn from three populations, a blue-collar working group, a white-collar working group, and a patient group. Sufferers drawn from the patient population revealed the expected psychological disturbance. There was no evidence of such involvement for sufferers still at work. Disability resulting from low-back pain was positively linearly related to severity of pain for sufferers drawn from working groups, irrespective of psychological disturbance. For patients, on the other hand, the presence of psychological disturbance modified the relationship between severity and disability such that no simple linear relationship existed between the two variables. Work dissatisfaction was not found to be related to the presence of, and did not account for disability resulting from, low-back pain in working subjects.
ISSN:0355-3140
1795-990X
DOI:10.5271/sjweh.1560