Risk Factors Overview of Low Back Pain in Ojek Drivers in South Jakarta in 2017

Sahetapi, Chyntia M and Pariama, Ganda (2022) Risk Factors Overview of Low Back Pain in Ojek Drivers in South Jakarta in 2017. International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, 12 (5). ISSN 2249 9571

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Abstract

Jakarta citizens use the ojek as their daily transportation because it is cheap, easy, and fast and also because that happens every day. Ojek is transportation driven by a driver who has to sit for an extended amount of time. Low back pain is one of the risk factors that could make an ojek driver riskier to have a musculoskeletal disturbance. This research aims to determine the relationship between age, body mass index, working period, length of work, physical activity, work position, and smoking habit with low back pain complaints on ojek drivers in South Jakarta. This research is an analytical observational with cross-sectional study research, the sampling methods being used as a simple random sampling technique with 92 respondents. According to the result of the research, it could be summarized that there is a relationship between working period(p=0.004), smoking habits (=0.045), and work position(p=0.028), and there is no relation between age, length of working, physical activity, body mass index with low back pain incidence on ojek driver at South Jakarta. Keywords: Age, Working Period, Smoking Habit, Exercise, Body Mass Index, work Position

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