Hubungan Sikap dan Posisi Kerja dengan Low Back Pain pada Perawat di RSUD Purbalingga
Abstract: Low back pain is one
of musculoskeletal disorder that is caused by inappropriate body activity.
Several factors that contribute towards low back pain are age, obesity, body
mass index and pregnancy. However, the most contributing factor toward low back
pain is inappropriate position during activity. Some nurses’ activities also
have potentially risk towards low back pain for example during lifting their
patients and performing activity at operation room
The purpose of this research is to show whether the correlation of job
posture and position with low back pain by the nurses of Regional Hospital of
Purbalingga The research was descriptive analysis with cross sectional
approach. Of 32 respondents fulfilling inclusion criteria were chosen through
purposive sampling method. The variable of the research was job posture and
position as the independent variable and low back pain as dependent one.
The research instrument was Ovako Working Posture Analysis System (OWAS)
for testing job posture and position, meanwhile laseque test was tool for
testing low back pain. Chi Square statistic test was used to show the
correlation of job posture and position with low back pain.
The result shows that 10 respondents have job posture and position that
was possible for causing musculoskeletal injuries and 6 respondents were
suffering low back pain. Chi Square statistic test results χ2count = 1,208, the
value was lower than χ2table for α = 0.05 which is 3.841, thus it was concluded
that there was not correlation between job posture and position with low back
pain. There was not correlation between job posture and position with low back
pain suffered by the nurses of Regional Hospital of Purbalingga.
Penulis: Himawan Fatoni, Handoyo,
Keksi Girindra Swasti
Kode Jurnal: jpkeperawatandd090021
