ABSTRACT

Background: Nursing is a profession that is concerned with maintaining and promoting the health and well-being of patients. Many occupational health problems arise due to workload in the clinical setting. Among these occupational health problems low back pain is a major problem.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception of low back pain exercise among nurses at a clinical setting in a public tertiary hospital in Lahore, Pakistan.

Method: This study was, descriptive cross-sectional conducted at the Departments of Jinnah hospital Lahore. The population of this study was registered nurses of Jinnah hospital Lahore. The data collection period was nine months after the approval from the institutional review board.

Results: Total 191 registered nurses were included in current study. The mean age of nurses was 33.72+9.10. The majority of the nurses were from the surgical ward. All the participants were female nurses. 49.7% were married and 64.4% were nursing diploma holders. 64.9% were charge nurses and 52.9 % of respondents were 1-5 years stay in the organization. The knowledge of nurses was 45.3%, perception was 54.5% and attitude was 28.3%. In this study, the average score of knowledge was 45.3%. Nurses need more knowledge regarding low back pain exercise.

Conclusion: Low back pain is a crucial problem among nurses but nurses’ knowledge regarding low back pain exercise is slight. Still, there is no prevention and active treatment to address this serious issue. A comprehensive treatment policy, as well as low back pain exercise, should be included for the treatment of low back pain.

Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Perception, Low back pain exercise