The Relationship between Musculoskeletal Pain and Demographic Variables in Nursing and Midwifery Students | ||
| International Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain Prevention | ||
| Article 4, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 256-262 PDF (263.79 K) | ||
| Document Type: Descriptive & Survey | ||
| DOI: 10.52547/ijmpp.4.4.256 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Fereshteh Amini1; Fatteme Raiisi* 2 | ||
| 1PhD Student of Health Education and Health Promotion Tarbiat Modares University | ||
| 2PhD Cognitive Science (IRCSS) Institute of Cognitive Science Study. Tehran, Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Aim: Musculoskeletal pain refers to pain in the muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between factors affecting musculoskeletal pain and demographic variables of nursing and midwifery students. studying in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) Method and Instrument: The method of this cross-sectional study was descriptive– correlational through which 120 nursing and midwifery students of Tehran University of medical sciences aged between 18-22 years were studied. The sample was selected by simple random sampling and standard Nordic pain questionnaire was used to measure the prevalence of pain. To test the hypotheses, in addition to descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation, chi-square test was used. Data were analyzed by SPSS-25 software. Findings: Totally, 120 nursing and midwifery students including 55.8% of nursing students (N=67) and 44.2% midwifery students (N=53) were studied. The results showed that nursing students more than midwifery students were suffering from at least one more musculoskeletal pain. This study showed that there is statistically significant difference between nursing and midwifery students in terms of foot pain (P <0.01) that means the rate of foot pain in nursing students was higher than midwifery students. Conclusion: Findings from this study showed that there was a relationship between demographic variables, field of study and musculoskeletal pain. Therefore, nursing students might suffer from more musculoskeletal pain. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| musculoskeletal pain; Demographic variables; Nursing and midwifery students; field of study | ||
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