Frontiers of Nursing (Jan 2021)

Prevalence and influencing factors of low back pain among nurses in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Wang Dong-Yang,
  • Sun Yu-Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0042
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4
pp. 329 – 336

Abstract

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Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common occupational injuries that nurses experience in their daily work, which ultimately causes disability or difficulty in performing heavy physical activity. There is scarce information that presents a direct figure about the prevalence of LBP in Chinese nurses.

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