PHYSICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL RISK FACTORS TOWARDS COMPLAINTS OF LOW BACK PAIN ON TILE MAKER WORKERS IN GEDUNG REJO VILLAGE BK. 9 OKU TIMUR

Abstract

Background : Making tiles that is done manually can be  risky to low back pain. LBP is the  complaint which most often found in workers especially in lifting activities that still done manually and work by wrong body position. LBP complaints can be due to several factors, including physical and occupational risk factors.

Methods : This  reasearch used cross-sectional quantitative design. Done on tile worker in Gedung Rejo BK.9 Village OKU Timur. Data  was collected through interviews, observations, and   lasegue  test  to support LBP diagnosis. Processing data used SPSS to perform  univariate, bivariate using chi-square test and photovoice.

Results : From  91 respondents there were 67 (73.6%) of workers who had complaints about LBP, and 24 (26.4%) workers  did not have complaints about LBP. The results showed that there was no relationship between age and LBP complaints (ρ value = 0.015). There is no relationship between the type of Sex with LBP complaints (ρ value = 0.116). There was no relationship between obesity and LBP complaints (ρ value = 0.152). There was relationship between posture when making tile with LBP complaints (ρ value = 0.002). There was a relationship between lifting posture with LBP complaints (ρ value = 0.023). There was  relationship between load weight lifted with  LBP complaints (ρ value = 0.001). There was a relationship between years of service with LBP complaints (0.0001). There was relationship between the lifting frequency with LBP complaints (ρ value = 0.149)

Conclusion : There is a significant relationship between age, work posture when making tile, tile lifting work posture, weight load lifted, years of service and lifting frequency with LBP complaints.

Keywords : Low back pain, physical risk factors, job, lift.