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Document ID (ISN)107858
CIS number 08-347
ISBN(s) 978-2-89631-108-8
Year 2007
Convention or series no. Etudes et Recherches R-487
Author(s) Truchon M., Fillion L., Truchon G., Dionne C., Arsenault B., Viau C.
Title Low-back-pain-related determinants of disability
Original title Les déterminants de l'incapacité liés à la lombalgie [in French]
Bibliographic information Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail du Québec (IRSST), 505 boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal (Quebec) H3A 3C2, Canada, 2007. iv, 100p. Illus. 111 ref. Price: CAD 12.72. Downloadable version (PDF format) free of charge.
Internet access http://www.irsst.qc.ca/files/documents/PubIRSST/R-487.pdf [in French]
Abstract Chronic disability affects only a small proportion of low back pain workers. However, the consequences of such disability are detrimental to society in general as well as to workers and their families (prolonged disability, loss of productivity, incapacitating pain, loss of quality of life, conjugal and family difficulties, high compensation costs, substantial medical costs, etc.). Prevention of chronic disability remains a major concern. However, preventing the complex phenomenon of chronic disability requires a good understanding of all of the factors that come into play in the evolution towards this state. The objective of this study was to integrate scientifically-recognized medical and psychosocial factors into a coherent conceptual framework. Using a longitudinal prospective study, the model thus created was validated on a sample of workers with low back pain disability. Finally, other factors potentially involved in chronic disability, such as aspects relating to the workplace or the compensation system, were documented. The knowledge resulting from this study allows supporting clinicians in their efforts to improve interventions on low back pain workers and will be used in further IRSST work on rehabilitation.
Descriptors (primary) Quebec; sickness absenteeism; handicapped workers; backache; risk factors; lumbar column
Descriptors (secondary) compensation of occupational diseases; public OSH institutions; Canada; report; interleukins; determination in biological matter; psychology and sociology; hormone secretion; questionnaire survey; long-term study; stress factors; chronic diseases
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Country / State or ProvinceCanada
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Workers with disabilities
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system