International Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain prevention
Volume:6 Issue: 2, Spring 2021

One of the main problems of the health system in the word is the increasing prevalence of chronic pain and failure to manage it. Although many studies have been conducted on the management of this type of pain around the world, specialties related to pain and research centers of chronic pain as well as scientific centers have been established in universities, various treatment and caring models have been presented subsequently, but chronic pain continues ias a difficult health problem to be treated and lies on the face of the policy makers and custodians of health system as a multifaceted puzzle

The aim of this study was to predict the chronic musculoskeletal pain adaptation to according inhabitation behavioral systems, activation behavioral systems and perceived social support.

Method and Materials:

 In this descriptive correlational study, 270 patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain assessed with Illness Social-Psychosocial Adjustment Scale, Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale, and Wilson & Gary Brain Behavioral Systems Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS 20 statistical software using regression statistical method.

Findings revealed the behavioral inhibition system predicts pain adaptation scores positively and the behavioral activation system predicts pain adaptation scores negatively. Perception of social support in three dimensions of family, friends, and important individuals could negatively predict 42% of the variance of pain adaptation.

This study showed there is a relationship between behavioral brain systems and perceived social support with pain adaptation. Therefore, it can be concluded that perceived social support and behavioral brain systems predict pain adaptation

Back pain is one of the arising musculoskeletal disorders among the children population. The purpose of this study was to compare students’ knowledge about spinal disorders preventive behaviors”

Method and Materials: 

This study was a school-based clinical trial among 104 fifth grade female students. The intervention group (N = 52) received six training sessions once a week and the control group (N=52) did not receive any intervention. Data was collected using the self-reported questionnaire include demographic information and back care knowledge at baseline, immediately, 3- and 6-months follow-ups. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 24. Descriptive analysis, chi-square test, independent t-test. repeated measure analysis of variance and Friedman test were applied to evaluate the results. Significance level was set at p ≤ 0.05.

The results demonstrated that there was a significant interaction between ‘group’ and ‘test time’ factors (p < 0.001), with higher score for the intervention group (36.4%improvement for the knowledge test score). By contrast, the control group didn’t have  significant higher mean score of knowledge from the pre-test to follow-up assessments.

The effectiveness of intervention on back care related knowledge was demonstrated in this study. Further evaluation is required to examine other determinants of promoting back-related behavior.

Pain is an abstract concept that can be understood by others through conceptual metaphors. The purpose of this study was cognitive analysis of pain metaphors in Iranian patients.

Method and Materials:

 This qualitative study has been done among 30 patients with musculoskeletal pain through cognitive analysis. The participants were asked to compare their pain to anything that comes to their minds. In next stage, frequent categories of pain source domains were extracted from 300 statements manually.

The results of this study showed that there were 9 important pain source domains as object, causation, path and direction, human, place, taste, container, force and circle.

To conclude, it seems that pain as like abstract concepts can be understood as object, causation, path and direction, human, place, taste, container, force and circle among Persian patients.

Musculoskeletal problems are a concerning issue now a days and Rohingya refugees are one of the most vulnerable group. Our study aims to find out the prevalence of musculoskeletal problem among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

Method and Materials:

 A cross-sectional survey was conducted and subjects were recruited by using simple random sampling method. A questionnaire containing demographic data, Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire and SF-12 health survey was used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate the prevalence rate.

Among 120 participants 79.2% were male and 20.8 % were female. 69.3% participants having pain in different site of the body. Most of the participants having pain in the lower back (34.2%) followed by multiple joints (21.7%). The severity of the pain was mild pain 38.5%, moderate pain 35.2% and severe pain 2.4% respectively.

Musculoskeletal problems are highly prevalent among Rohingya refugee ppulation. It is, therefore, important to consider the basic health needs like medicine and rehabilitation services to the refugee population for living in protracted humanitarian environment.

The improper posture of nurses’ spinal column during work could increase the rate of neck pain among them. Various studies have shown that musculoskeletal disorders, including neck pain, are very common in medical staff, especially among nurses. This study aimed to investigate the effect of an educational-training program on Behavioral Changes Related to Preventing Neck Pain Strategies among Nurses Working in Lorestan Province , Iran

Method and Materials:

 This study was performed on 90 nurses in two experimental (N=45) and control (N=45) groups. In this study, a researcher-made questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge, attitude, and behaviors of the nurses regarding the neck proper posture. The program was shared through mobile phones and virtual networks, to reduce nurses’ misbehaviors by increasing their awareness and changing their attitudes. Data were collected before and three months after the intervention in both groups.

This study found that nurses obtained low scores in the areas of knowledge,attitude, and behavior before the intervention. There was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of demographic characteristics and studied variables at initial of the study (p > 0.05); while after the educational-training program, the average scores of nurses in the experimental group increased in all three areas including knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors (p < 0.001).

The present study showed that the ergonomic-based educational-training program can be effective in changing the behavior of nurses in order to prevent their neck pain. Therefore, it is recommended to use virtual educational-training programs in further researches in order to confirm its effectiveness to be able to be applied in health system.