Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35941743›Full record

ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2022

Association Between Low Back Pain, Workaholism, and Work Engagement in Japanese Hospital Workers: A Quantitative Cross-sectional Study.

Kenji Nihei, Yoshimi Suzukamo, Ko Matsudaira, Motoko Tanabe, Shin-Ichi Izumi

Open access · hybridAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kenji NiheiFrom the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan (Dr Nihei, Dr Suzukamo, Dr Tanabe, Dr Izumi); Pain Management Center, Hoshi General Hospital, Koriyama-shi, Fukushima, Japan (Dr Nihei); Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Research and Management for Musculoskeletal Pain, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Dr Matsudaira); Department of Rehabilitation, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan (Dr Tanabe); and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan (Dr Izumi).
Yoshimi Suzukamo
Ko Matsudaira
Motoko Tanabe
Shin-Ichi Izumi
Izumi City General Hospital · JPWakayama Prefectural Tanabe High School · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study aimed to examine the association between two types of heavy work investment, workaholism and work engagement, and low back pain prevalence.

methodsWe conducted a paper-based survey of Japanese hospital workers. The Dutch Workaholism Scale (DUWAS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) were used to classify the participants into four groups and perform multiple logistic regression analyses.

resultsAmong 699 participants, the group with low DUWAS and high UWES at 37.1% had the lowest low back pain prevalence. In order, the groups with low DUWAS and UWES were at 51.7%; those with high DUWAS and UWES, 58.5%; and those with high DUWAS and low UWES, 62.4%, with multivariate-adjusted odds ratios of 1.77, 2.01, and 2.33, respectively.

conclusionsLow back pain prevalence among Japanese hospital workers was reduced by high levels of work engagement, even at high levels of workaholism.

Indexed as

Low Back PainWork EngagementCross-Sectional StudiesEast Asian PeopleHospitalsHumans

Identifiers

PMID35941743
PMCPMC9722383
OpenAlexW4290729591

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.