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PREVALENCE & RISK FACTORS OF LOW BACK PAIN AMONG TEACHING STAFF AT KSU RIYADH, CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY.

Dr Sajjan Iqbal Memon, Dr Sawera Rasheed Dr Sultana Sindhu, Dr Payal, Dr Faiza Qureshi, Claire Mic Gillycuddy Smith, Dr Shunaid Ahmad Memon

Objectives: To examine prevalence and identify risk factors and coping strategies of low back pain. Main study Objectives focused on Full- time permanent teaching faculty members of King Saud University Medical College at Riyadh. Delivering lecturers between <3 and > 3 working hours a day. In addition, having age limit between < 40 and >40 years old done through modified Oswestry pain questionnaires. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study with self-administrative questionnaires design was used to collect information from 161 respondents over the period of 6 months (January to June2019) Results: Prevalence of LBP was considerably higher due to majority of response rate by male respondents about 63% and 37% by females. (Descriptive Statistics Mean Results for variables like Sex was 1.2919 Age: 1.2981 and Working Hours: 1.8012) whereas, (SD for Sex .45607, age: .45887 and working hours: .40031) was recorded. Chi-Square Test was used to show relation between three independent variables for (age, sex and total working hours of faculty members).statistics result of Chi-Square in sex was value of 27.882a and age value of 26.242a and total working hours was 58.441a, degree of freedom in the data was set to 1. Whereas, total Prevalence score was recorded 2249 in scale. Conclusion: It has been concluded that, low back pain is a common complaint during walking. Prevalence stands out to be 63% in male population and teachers do experience recurrent low back pain which consequently leads to chronic disability having various postural problems of the body in context by lifting heavy physical load KEYWORDS: Low Back, Pain, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Disability, Postural Problems.

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