Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Associated Factors Among Family Caregivers of Patients With Disabilities in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on Binary Logistic Regression Modelling.
Yu-Jiao Sun, Li Dai, Jiao Xiong and 1 others
PMID 42771844WHAT IT FOUND
More than half of family caregivers of patients with disabilities in Shenzhen reported low back pain.
Frequent repositioning, longer caregiving years, unsafe handling behaviours and low social support were linked to higher odds of pain. These are associations, not causes.
Key findings
0155.98% of family caregivers reported low back pain in the previous 12 months.
02Repositioning patients 4 to 7 times or at least 8 times per day was associated with higher odds of low back pain compared with no more than 3 times per day.
03Higher patient handling safety behaviour and higher perceived social support were associated with lower odds of low back pain.
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What it does not show
The cross-sectional design cannot establish causality or temporality. Data were self-reported and subject to recall and reporting bias. Convenience sampling from urban tertiary hospitals limits generalizability to rural or less-developed regions. The study excluded caregivers with pre-existing lumbar conditions or injury-related pain, which may not reflect the full range of caregiver health.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the associations between repositioning frequency, care years, safety behaviour, or social support and low back pain as evidence that these factors cause the pain. The cross-sectional design only shows that these factors are more common in caregivers who report pain.