Anisha, R (2016) A study to evaluate the effectiveness of stretching exercise in reduction of low back pain among staff nurses working in a selected hospitals, Kanyakumari district. Masters thesis, Global College of Nursing, Kanyakumari.
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Abstract
Low back pain is neither a disease nor a diagnostic entity of any sort. The term refers to pain of variable duration in an area of the anatomy afflicted so often that it is has become a paradigm of responses to external and internal stimuli. Statement of the problem A study to evaluate the effectiveness of stretching exercise in reduction of low back pain among staff nurses working in a selected hospitals, Kanyakumari district. Objectives of the Study 1) To assess the pre test and post test level of low back pain among staff nurses in experimental group and control group. 2) To find out the effectiveness of stretching exercise on low back pain among staff nurses in experimental and control group. 3) To associate the pre test level of low back pain among staff nurses in experimental and control group with their selected demographic variables.(Age, Sex, Educational status, unit, marital status, clinical experience) The investigator adopted Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model (1984) as the conceptual frame work for this study. Quasi experimental research design Was used and the formal consent was obtained from P.S. Medical Trust Hospital Thalakkulam and the investigator selected 60 samples using Purposive sampling technique were selected, as a samples both in experimental group and control group . Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Analysis of demographic variables was done in terms of frequency and percentage distribution. Comparison of post test level of low back pain between the experimental group and control group was analyzed by ‘t’ test which is an inferential statistical analysis. Association of pre test level of low back pain in the experimental group and control group with demographic variables was analyzed by using chi-square test. The study revealed that among experimental group the mean pre-test score was 27.3 with standard deviation 7.29. The mean post-test was 16.6 with standard deviation 5.37. The mean difference was 10.7. The obtained ‘t’ test value was 17.63,which was significant at p< 0.05 level. Hence it was inferred that stretching exercise was highly effective in reducing of low back pain among staff nurses with low back pain.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Stretching Exercise ; Reduction Of low Back pain ; Staff nurses ; Hospitals ; Kanyakumari District. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2017 11:31 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2017 05:03 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/2794 |
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