ArticleWork (Reading, Mass.)2017
Musculoskeletal signs in female homecare personnel: A longitudinal epidemiological study.
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- Can home care work be organized to promote health among the workers while maintaining productivity? An investigation into stakeholders' perspectives on organizational work redesign concepts based on the Goldilocks Work principles.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Home care workers' experiences of work conditions related to their occupational health: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn Sweden, homecare services take care of elderly and disabled people, work that often requires heavy lifting and forward bending, resulting in high prevalences of pain and work accidents.
objectiveUsing an eight-year follow-up, this study determines the prognostic importance of certain musculoskeletal signs reported in earlier studies [1, 2] with respect to aspects of pain and perceived disability.
methodsBaseline data has been reported in earlier studies of 607 women [1-3]. This study uses a postal questionnaire survey and reports the results of eight years post initial study.
resultsSegmental pain at L4-L5 and/or L5-S1 levels was associated with higher low back pain intensity and disability at the eight-year follow-up. A decrease in low back pain intensity over eight years was larger for those with segmental pain. The important signs in the longitudinal analyses of pain aspects and disability were lumbar spinal mobility and segmental pain at L4-L5 and L5-S1 levels, but the explained variations were low.
conclusionEvaluation of low lumbar segmental pain provocation and mobility should be considered in routine clinical assessments, as this type of evaluation provides prognostic pain and disability information over time.
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