Safety and Health at Work Vol. 10 Issue 1 2019
Quebec Serve and Protect Low Back Pain Study: What About Mental Quality of Life? (Original Article)
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 10 Issue 1 2019
Quebec Serve and Protect Low Back Pain Study: What About Mental Quality of Life? (Original Article)
Quebec Serve and Protect Low Back Pain Study: What About Mental Quality of Life? (Original Article)
Subject
Chronic low back pain, Determinants, Police officers, Quality of life
Description
Background: As of now, the impact of low back pain (LBP) and its chronic state, chronic low back pain
(CLBP), on mental health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has never been investigated among police officers. The present investigation aims at studying this relationship using a biopsychosocial model.
Methods: Between May and October 2014, a Web-based cross-sectional study was conducted among
Quebec police officers (Quebec, Canada). Mental HRQOL was measured using the role emotional (RE) and the mental health (MH) domains of the SF-12v2 Health Survey. The impact of CLBP on mental HRQOL (as opposed to acute/subacute LBP or no LBP) was studied with a multivariate linear regression model.
Results: Of the 3,589 police officers who participated in the study, 1,013 (28.4%) reported CLBP. The mean age of respondents was 38.5 8.7 years, and 32.0% were females. The RE (44.1/100) and MH (49.0/100) mean scores of the CLBP group were comparable with the scores found in populations suffering from cancer or heart diseases. Compared to officers without LBP, the presence of CLBP was significantly associated with lower RE (b: 0.068; p 1⁄4 0.003) and MH (b: 0.062; p 1⁄4 0.002) scores. These relationships were not found in the acute/subacute LBP group.
Conclusion: Our results underscore how frequent CLBP is among police officers and how burdensome it is. Considering the importance of good physical and mental health for this occupational population,
police organizations should be aware of this issue and contribute to the efforts toward CLBP prevention and management in the workplace.
(CLBP), on mental health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has never been investigated among police officers. The present investigation aims at studying this relationship using a biopsychosocial model.
Methods: Between May and October 2014, a Web-based cross-sectional study was conducted among
Quebec police officers (Quebec, Canada). Mental HRQOL was measured using the role emotional (RE) and the mental health (MH) domains of the SF-12v2 Health Survey. The impact of CLBP on mental HRQOL (as opposed to acute/subacute LBP or no LBP) was studied with a multivariate linear regression model.
Results: Of the 3,589 police officers who participated in the study, 1,013 (28.4%) reported CLBP. The mean age of respondents was 38.5 8.7 years, and 32.0% were females. The RE (44.1/100) and MH (49.0/100) mean scores of the CLBP group were comparable with the scores found in populations suffering from cancer or heart diseases. Compared to officers without LBP, the presence of CLBP was significantly associated with lower RE (b: 0.068; p 1⁄4 0.003) and MH (b: 0.062; p 1⁄4 0.002) scores. These relationships were not found in the acute/subacute LBP group.
Conclusion: Our results underscore how frequent CLBP is among police officers and how burdensome it is. Considering the importance of good physical and mental health for this occupational population,
police organizations should be aware of this issue and contribute to the efforts toward CLBP prevention and management in the workplace.
Creator
Nabiha Benyamina Douma, Charles Côté, Anaïs Lacasse
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
March 2019
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 10 Issue 1 2019
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Citation
Nabiha Benyamina Douma, Charles Côté, Anaïs Lacasse, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 10 Issue 1 2019
Quebec Serve and Protect Low Back Pain Study: What About Mental Quality of Life? (Original Article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed December 22, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/1904.
Quebec Serve and Protect Low Back Pain Study: What About Mental Quality of Life? (Original Article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed December 22, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/1904.