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

Background & Objective: The job stress, undesirablework assignments, heavy workload and continuously workingwhile sitting in office stimulates back-pain, however, the dailyexercise can reduce the back-pain. The objective of the study wasto examine the relationship amongst job stress and chronic painin back and investigate the factors of chronic pain in backamongst teaching and administrative staff. Methodology: Thestudy was conducted at Liaquat University of Medical & HealthSciences, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan with the help ofQuestionnaire & Interviews. The methodology of the study wascross-sectional. The random sampling method has been appliedin this study, and a sample of 300 respondents (150 teaching staffand 150 administrative staff) was selected for this study. Results& Conclusion: Results indicated that due to job stress andcontinuously working in the office, the pain in back graduallydevelops in both categories of staff, however, due to ignorance,the back pain leads to chronic back-pain with other severecomplications. The results also indicated that the teaching staffpossesses lesser back-pain while the administrative staff suffersfrom pain in back as they have to work in the office regularly. Itwas also observed that the staff who daily exercise have lesserback-pain while the staff who do not exercise regularly faces backpain. Hence the job stress is associated with chronic pain, andregular physical workout can reduce chronic back-pain