2023 Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 3-9
Objective: To clarify the relationship between the presence of low back pain and workaholism and recovery experience among nursing, care, and rehabilitation staff. In addition, the purpose of this study was to provide basic data for proposing a new method of preventing low back pain in the workplace.
Methods: A questionnaire survey was administered to 80 nursing, care and rehabilitation staff. The survey items included basic information, work status, low back pain status, workaholism, and recovery experience, and the survey items were compared according to the presence or absence of low back pain.
Results: Compared to the non-low back pain group, the low back pain group had significantly higher total workaholism scores and sub-item working excessively scores, and significantly lower psychological detachment scores, a sub-item of recovery experience.
Conclusions: An association between workaholism and recovery experience and the presence or absence of current low back pain among nursing, care, and rehabilitation staff was shown. The need to examine the prevention of low back pain including these factors in the future was indicated.
