Prevalence of low back pain among the cutting and finishing operators at a selected garment factory in Gazipur

Abstract

Purpose: To identify the prevalence of low back pain among the cutting and finishing operators in garment factory. Objectives: To explore the socio-demographic information (age, educational background, living area) of the affected group; to establish the prevalence of low back pain by age and sex; to identify the pain ratio among cutting and finishing operators; to determine more affected age group, to measure the severity of pain by using Visual Analog Scale; to identify the available treatment received by the LBP affected patients; to find out the absenteeism due to pain, to identify the risk factor of low back pain among the cutting and finishing operators. Methodology: The study design was cross-sectional. Total 150 samples were selected conveniently for this study from the Delta Composite knitting Industries Limited. Data was collected by using mixed type of questionnaire. Descriptive statistic was used for data analysis which focused through pie chart and bar chart. Result: The finding of the study was that 36% cutting and finishing operators suffered from LBP. Most of them had been suffered from moderate (51%) LBP. Among 36% cutting and finishing operators 56% cutting operators and 44% finishing operators suffered from LBP. Among 36% cutting and finishing operators who suffered from LBP took different kinds of treatment, among them 72% took medication, 4% took physiotherapy and 24% do not took any treatment for their LBP. Conclusion: From this study it could conclude that cutting operators are more vulnerable to LBP than finishing operators. This study could help the general population who had risk of LBP, the researcher for further study and the physiotherapist to treat the LBP accurately.