Relationship between work position and the occurence of low back pain among aircraft maintenance engineer of PT.GMF AeroAsia at Ngurah Rai International Airport

摘要

Low back pain is the most common musculoskeletal disorders,with the prevalence of 60%-70% in industrial countries.Working position,repetitive work,load,vibration are major risk factors of low back pain.Worker as an aircraft maintenance engineer is thought to be one of the risk factors for low back pain.The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between working position with the occurence of low back pain in aircraft maintenance engineers.This study used cross-sectional analytic design.The variables studied in this study were working position as independent variable and lower back pain as dependent variable.The samples of this reseach were aircraft maintenance engineers of PT.GMF AeroAsia at Ngurah Rai International Airport,comprising 48 employees selected by simple random sampling from 100 employees in the population.The data collected were primary data obtained by observation and questionnaires of Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire and REBA(Rapid Entire Body Assessment).Data analysis was performed by using cross-tab with chi square test(a = 0,05).The results showed that most respondents aged 45-54 years(37.5%),working with high risk work position(56.3%),complaining minimal disability of low back pain 30(62.5%).The analysis results indicated a moderate andsignificant positive correlation(p=0,029;r=0,337).