Correlation between Coping with Stress and Low Back Pain in College Student

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences Tehran Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Markazi, Iran

3 Department of Educatinal Sciences, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

4 Department of Occupational Therapy, Tehran University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Purpose:
Many different factors are considered as effective factor that cause and have effect on endurance of low back pain. Life style is one of these factors consisted of subsets that are related to life pattern. The relation between these factors and low back pain is not well studied thus the present study by purpose of studying coping with stress as a basic factor in relation with components of low back pain have been done.
Methods:
from Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Tehran and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad of Iran 68 college students have participated in the study. All participants completed two questionnaires of Nordic musculoskeletal and Cassidi and Long problem-solving style. Analysis of data was conducted by SPSS v21 and Spearman correlation tests.
Results:
The results show that there is a positive correlation between age, education level and duration of low back pain with an efficient problem-solving style. On the other hand there is a negative correlation between inefficient problem-solving style and education level. In addition, results illustrate that there is a positive correlation between work absence and inefficient problem-solving style (p<0.05).
Conclusion:
According to the results coping with stress style is an efficient factor in duration of low back pain and work absence. However, the effectiveness of this factor as a basic factor for the appearance of low back pain has not been shown in a proper manner.   

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Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation
Volume 9, Issue 1
March 2020
Pages 52-58

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