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Prevalence and its risk factors for low back pain among operation and maintenance personnel in wind farms

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Title
Prevalence and its risk factors for low back pain among operation and maintenance personnel in wind farms
Published in
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12891-016-1180-y
Pubmed ID
27461535
Authors

Ning Jia, Tao Li, Shuangqiu Hu, Xinhe Zhu, Kang Sun, Long Yi, Qiong Zhang, Guilian Luo, Yuzhen Li, Xueyan Zhang, Yongen Gu, Zhongxu Wang

Abstract

With the increasingly severe energy shortage and climate change problems, developing wind power has become a key energy development strategy and an inevitable choice to protect the ecological environment worldwide. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) and analyze its risk factors among operation and maintenance personnel in wind farms (OMPWF). A cross-sectional survey of 151 OMPWF was performed, and a comprehensive questionnaire, which was modified and combined from Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaires (NMQ), Washington State Ergonomics Tool (WSET) and Syndrome Checklist-90(SCL-90) was used to assess the prevalence and risk factors of LBP among OMPWF. The prevalence of LBP was 88.74 % (134/151) among OMPWF. The multivariable model highlighted four related factors: backrest, somatization, squatting and lifting objects weighing more than 10 lb more than twice per minute. The prevalence of LBP among OMPWF appears to be high and highlights a major occupational health concern.

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Unknown 46 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 15%
Researcher 6 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 9 20%
Unknown 7 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 8 17%
Engineering 7 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 15%
Social Sciences 5 11%
Psychology 4 9%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 9 20%

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#9,794,426
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