Occupational and environmental medicine

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Occup Environ Med · May 2002

High physical work load and low job satisfaction increase the risk of sickness absence due to low back pain: results of a prospective cohort study.

To determine whether physical and psychosocial load at work influence sickness absence due to low back pain. ⋯ Flexion and rotation of the trunk, lifting, and low job satisfaction are risk factors for sickness absence due to low back pain. Some indications of a relation between low social support, either from supervisors or coworkers, and sickness absence due to low back pain are also present.

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