Prevalence of low back pain in long time sitting position among the office worker.

Abstract

Purpose: To compute the number of people having low back pain per hundred people from Office Worker. Objectives: To find out the prevalence of low back pain in long time sitting position among the office worker; to identify vulnerable sex affected by LBP; to determine the educational level of the participant; to determine vulnerable age group of LBP; to assess the behavior of pain; to evaluate the possible cause that might responsible for developing LBP and to identify participants treatment seeking behavior. Methodology: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was chosen to accomplish the objectives of the study. One hundred subjects were selected conveniently from Office. A structural questionnaire was developed through searching related literature. The participants were requested to answer according to the developed format of the question. The answers were entered into SPSS 20 software and analyzed as descriptive statistics. Results: The study showed that the prevalence of low back pain in long time sitting position among the office worker. The study findings reveal the 87% have suffered from back pain and male (70.11%) are more vulnerable than female (30%).The most affected age range 31-50years of age (68.18%). This age group is the largest proportion of the work force and with this part of the population affected to such a large degree it could affect the productivity of the company in a negative manner. The study revealed that the prevalence of back pain is most frequent who had job experience of 1-9 years 45%, followed by 39.08% were 10-19 years, 18% were and 16.09% were ≥20 years. Conclusion: The result of the study demonstrates that the prevalence of low back pain was 87%. And age, sex, prolong bending posture had a positive effect on the LBP among the people. Key word: Low back pain, Long time sitting, Office worker.