Prevalence of and risk factors for different measures of low back pain among female nursing aides in Taiwanese nursing homes

Table 4 Association of different LBP related measures with risk factors identified from multivariate forward stepwise logistic regressions ^a

LBP measures	Significant risk factors	OR	95% CI	P value
LBP lasting for at least 1 day	Skill discretion score	0.81	0.72–0.91	< 0.001
	Psychological demands score	1.61	1.39–1.87	< 0.001
	Job satisfaction score	0.96	0.92–0.99	0.042
	Frequency of manual transfer of patients between bed/wheelchair and bath cart in a workday	1.75	1.36–2.26	< 0.001
	Perceived physical exertion score	1.27	1.06–1.52	0.009
Chronic LBP	Age (yr)	1.14	1.02–1.27	0.021
	Decision authority score	0.81	0.70–0.92	0.002
	Psychological demands score	1.34	1.09–1.61	0.006
	Supervisor support	0.62	0.42–0.91	0.015
	Frequency of manual transfer of patients between bed/wheelchair and bath cart in a workday	1.60	1.01–2.53	0.049
Intense pain	Psychological demands score	1.46	1.24–1.73	< 0.001
	Coworker's support score	0.90	0.81–0.99	0.041
	Frequency of dressing of patients in a workday	1.94	1.53–2.47	< 0.001
	Frequency of bathing patients in bed in a workday	2.62	1.67–4.11	< 0.001
	Perceived physical exertion score	1.99	1.46–2.73	< 0.001
Medical care seeking	Exercise in leisure time^b (yes vs. no)	0.41	0.18–0.93	0.032
	Decision authority score	0.88	0.79–0.97	0.011
	Psychological demands score	1.66	1.41–1.95	< 0.001
	Frequency of manual transfer of patients between bed/wheelchair and bath cart in a workday	3.51	2.33–5.28	< 0.001
Sick leave	Supervisor's support score	0.53	0.39–0.72	< 0.001
	Job satisfaction score	0.90	0.84–0.96	0.001
	Frequency of bathing patients in bed in a workday	2.00	1.17–3.41	0.011
	Perceived physical exertion score	1.48	1.08–2.04	0.015

^a Potential risk factors entered in each model included age, BMI, marital state, educational level, current work years, working hours per week, exercise in leisure time, skill discretion, decision authority, psychological demands, supervisor support, coworker support, job satisfaction, perceived physical exertion, frequency of manual transfer of patients between bed/toilet and wheelchair, frequency of manual repositioning of patients in bed, frequency of bathing patients in bed, frequency of dressing of patients, and frequency of bathing patients in bed.
^b Exercise more than 2 hours per week

ISSN: 1471-2474