英文摘要 |
The main purpose of this study was to explore the factors associated with nurses' low back pain preventive behaviors, served as a reference of intervention program training. At first, we constituted a focus group to screen important brief for constructing questionnaire, then investigated 2034 nurses in 8 Taipei municipal hospitals from March to April in 2002. The main findings were as follows: 1. The life prevalence rate of nurses' low back pain is 61.6%, the year prevalence rate is 42.4%, the month prevalence rate is 19.8% and the week prevalence rate is 14.3%. 2. The demographic variables affect the health beliefs, cues to action, low back pain preventive behaviors and intention. 3. Among health beliefs, the 'perceived barriers' and 'cues to action' have the most influences on the low back pain preventive behaviors, and the 'perceived barriers' also have an impact on the intention of low back pain preventive behaviors. 4. The Health Belief Model components can apply to nurses' low back pain preventive behaviors and expound 30.1% variations. In addition, they can expound 26.4% variations toward the behaviors intention. |