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Risk factors for back pain in marines; a prospective cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, July 2016
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Title
Risk factors for back pain in marines; a prospective cohort study
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12891-016-1172-y
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Andreas Monnier, Mats Djupsjöbacka, Helena Larsson, Kjell Norman, Björn O. Äng

Abstract

It is recognised that back pain (BP) is a debilitating medical problem in the soldier community, which limits operational readiness as well as work ability. As such, identification of risk factors is a necessity for effective preventive actions, but also regarded as important from a safety perspective. The aim of this prospective cohort study was therefore to identify risk factors for back pain and BP limiting work ability in active duty marines within a 6 and 12-month period. Demographic characteristics, health-related factors and occupational exposure information, as gathered from questionnaires, as well as clinical test of movement control among 137 Swedish marines were regressed with multivariable logistic regressions, and strength of associations was presented as odds ratio (OR) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI). BP within 6 and 12 months were used as primary outcomes, whereas BP limiting work ability within 6 and 12 months served as secondary outcomes. Previous BP and tall body height (≥1.86 m) emerged as risk factors for back pain within 6 months (OR 2.99, 95 % CI 1.22-7.30; OR 2.81, 95 % CI 1.16- 6.84, respectively), and 12 months (OR 6.75, 95 % CI 2.30-19.80; 2.75, 95 % CI 1.21-6.29, respectively). Previous BP was also identified as risk factor for BP limiting work ability within 12 months (OR 6.64, 95 % CI 1.78-24.78), and tall body height emerged as a risk within both six (OR 4.30, 95 % CI 1.31-14.13) and 12 months (OR 4.55, 95 % CI 1.53-13.57) from baseline. Marines with a history of BP are at risk of further BP episodes, which, thus, emphasise the importance of early BP preventive actions. Tall body height also emerged as an important risk which may reflect that personal equipment and work tasks are not adapted for the tallest marines. While this should be considered when introducing new work equipment, further studies are warranted to clarify the underlying mechanism of this association.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 15%
Student > Bachelor 6 13%
Researcher 5 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Other 10 21%
Unknown 12 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 23%
Sports and Recreations 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 10%
Engineering 5 10%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 14 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 August 2016.
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#13,375,378
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Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#1,798
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#192,956
of 368,365 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#39
of 82 outputs
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