Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

Introduction: The world has been threatened with the emergence of the Novel Corona Virus straining the health care system and creating a global pandemic. This is not the first pandemic, and it certainly will not be the last to affect humanity. As the medical community is exposed to these highly co...

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Autores principales:	Shriraj Shrestha, Ayush Bajracharya, Saurav Dahal, Parash Bhandari, Basanta Maharjan, Suraj Bajracharya
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Publicado:	Nepal Medical Association 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1d37cdb6d0764541a49e9410c4527ff12021-11-07T19:11:39ZBack Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study10.31729/jnma.70840028-27151815-672Xhttps://doaj.org/article/1d37cdb6d0764541a49e9410c4527ff12021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.jnma.com.np/jnma/index.php/jnma/article/view/7084https://doaj.org/toc/0028-2715https://doaj.org/toc/1815-672X Introduction: The world has been threatened with the emergence of the Novel Corona Virus straining the health care system and creating a global pandemic. This is not the first pandemic, and it certainly will not be the last to affect humanity. As the medical community is exposed to these highly contagious new diseases with arrays of symptoms like fever, cough, shortness of breath, anosmia, insomnia, and myalgia. Back pain can also be considered as one of the symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Therefore, this study aimed to find out the prevalence of back pain among the Health care workers who were tested positive for COVID-19 by the end of their isolation period. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done from April 2021 to June 2021 in KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal, after receiving ethical approval from the Institutional Review Committee (Registration number: 2077/078/57). Convenience sampling was done. Data collection and entry were done in Microsoft excel, point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and proportion for binary data. Results: Out of 156 COVID-19 positive patients, the prevalence of back pain was seen among 64 (41%) patients (95% Confidence Interval= 42.23-57.75). Among them 21 (32.8%) were males and 43 (67.2%) were females. Likewise, the minimum age was 20 years and the maximum was 68 years with a mean of 33.5±10.28. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that a high proportion of healthcare workers were suffering from back pain and the findings are similar to the data from other international studies. Shriraj ShresthaAyush BajracharyaSaurav DahalParash BhandariBasanta MaharjanSuraj BajracharyaNepal Medical Associationarticleback painCOVID-19 health care workersMedicine (General)R5-920ENJournal of Nepal Medical Association, Vol 59, Iss 242 (2021)
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spellingShingle	back pain COVID-19 health care workers Medicine (General) R5-920 Shriraj Shrestha Ayush Bajracharya Saurav Dahal Parash Bhandari Basanta Maharjan Suraj Bajracharya Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
description	Introduction: The world has been threatened with the emergence of the Novel Corona Virus straining the health care system and creating a global pandemic. This is not the first pandemic, and it certainly will not be the last to affect humanity. As the medical community is exposed to these highly contagious new diseases with arrays of symptoms like fever, cough, shortness of breath, anosmia, insomnia, and myalgia. Back pain can also be considered as one of the symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Therefore, this study aimed to find out the prevalence of back pain among the Health care workers who were tested positive for COVID-19 by the end of their isolation period. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done from April 2021 to June 2021 in KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal, after receiving ethical approval from the Institutional Review Committee (Registration number: 2077/078/57). Convenience sampling was done. Data collection and entry were done in Microsoft excel, point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and proportion for binary data. Results: Out of 156 COVID-19 positive patients, the prevalence of back pain was seen among 64 (41%) patients (95% Confidence Interval= 42.23-57.75). Among them 21 (32.8%) were males and 43 (67.2%) were females. Likewise, the minimum age was 20 years and the maximum was 68 years with a mean of 33.5±10.28. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that a high proportion of healthcare workers were suffering from back pain and the findings are similar to the data from other international studies.
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author	Shriraj Shrestha Ayush Bajracharya Saurav Dahal Parash Bhandari Basanta Maharjan Suraj Bajracharya
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title	Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
title_short	Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
title_full	Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
title_fullStr	Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed	Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
title_sort	back pain among covid-19 positive health care workers in a tertiary care hospital in nepal: a descriptive cross-sectional study
publisher	Nepal Medical Association
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/1d37cdb6d0764541a49e9410c4527ff1
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Back Pain among COVID-19 Positive Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

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