Relationship amongst Job Stress and Chronic Back-Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study of Teaching and Administrative Staff

Abstract

Background & Objective: The job stress, undesirable
work assignments, heavy workload and continuously working
while sitting in office stimulates back-pain, however, the daily
exercise can reduce the back-pain. The objective of the study was
to examine the relationship amongst job stress and chronic pain
in back and investigate the factors of chronic pain in back
amongst teaching and administrative staff. Methodology: The
study was conducted at Liaquat University of Medical & Health
Sciences, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan with the help of
Questionnaire & Interviews. The methodology of the study was
cross-sectional. The random sampling method has been applied
in this study, and a sample of 300 respondents (150 teaching staff
and 150 administrative staff) was selected for this study. Results
& Conclusion: Results indicated that due to job stress and
continuously working in the office, the pain in back gradually
develops in both categories of staff, however, due to ignorance,
the back pain leads to chronic back-pain with other severe
complications. The results also indicated that the teaching staff
possesses lesser back-pain while the administrative staff suffers
from pain in back as they have to work in the office regularly. It
was also observed that the staff who daily exercise have lesser
back-pain while the staff who do not exercise regularly faces back
pain. Hence the job stress is associated with chronic pain, and
regular physical workout can reduce chronic back-pain.