Pattern of Household Activities and Its Effects on Low Back Pain among Housewives Attended for Physiotherapy Treatment at CRP, Savar.

Abstract

Introduction: Housework is traditionally an unpaid labor performed by women. It involves routine and compulsory household maintenance tasks can create musculoskeletal disorder like LBP. The prevalence rate of LBP was estimated to be within 45% to 55% with variation in the type of pain. Objective: The major objective of the study was to identify the effects of household activities among LBP housewife patients. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 255 respondent of age range 20-65 years.Data was collected through convenience sampling method from musculoskeletal department of CRP, Savar using semi-structured questionnairewhich was the modified question of International Physical Activity Questionnaires (IPAQ). The questionnaire consisted of questions according to Bangladesh perspectives regarding household activities that housewife do at home assessed the severity of pain using Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and data was collected using face to face interview. Result: Study found thathousehold activities like cooking & chopping (p<.0001), washing dish and cloth (p<.0001), sweeping floor/cleaning toilet (p<.0001) were significantly associated and positively correlated with LBP. Binary Logistic Regression found that the probability of having LBP compare with the time duration of cooking (OR 11.184 95% CI=2.622-47.731), chopping (OR 2.667 95% CI=1.444-4.927), washing dish (OR 3.33 95% CI=1.503-7.387), washing cloth (OR 5.709 95% CI=2.938-11.097), sweeping floor (OR 4.712 95% CI=2.331-9.525)was significantly higher among housewife. Conclusion:This study reveals that all of married women have to do their household activities regularly after marriage for a long period in prolong sitting, standing or bending posture from early morning to night of time at home. Therefore elder housewife develop LBP more as the duration of married life and duration of doing household activities are high among them. According to the finding of the study it is needed to change the agronomical setting at home to prevent poor posture and provide proper guideline about the posture and way during work which may help to prevent social and economical burden for LBP.