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Type:	Artigo de Periódico
Title:	Back pain occurred due to changes in routinary activities among Brazilian schoolteachers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors:	Rose Elizabeth Cabral Barbosa Giovanni Campos Fonseca Nayra Suze Souza e Silva Rosângela Ramos Veloso Silva Ada Ávila Assunção Desirée Sant’Ana Haikal
Abstract:	Objective: this study’s main objective was to investigate the emergence of back pain as a consequence to changes in usual activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic among teachers in public schools in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted among 15,276 schoolteachers using an online questionnaire. The variables included sociodemographic and occupational data, health situation, habits and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bivariate analyses using Pearson’s chi-square test and multiple analyses using Poisson regression were performed to identify the associated factors. Results: about 58% of schoolteachers reported back pain due to changes in routine activities during the pandemic. The adjusted model showed a correlation between back pain and female sex, longer working hours, overwork, difficulties concerning distance working, negative changes in health status and quality of sleep; frequent feeling of sadness, depression, or anxiety; use of medications to relax, sleep or against stress/anxiety/depression; physical inactivity or negative changes in the practice of physical activities; increased body weight; reduction of leisure time; increased time of use of computer or tablet and overload of housework. Conclusion: during the COVID-19 pandemic, schoolteachers reported a high prevalence of emergence of back pain, which delineates a contradiction in terms: on the one hand, distance education allows social distancing that contributes to the preservation of teachers’ health by reducing the risk of contamination by COVID-19. On the other hand, it imposes new demands that—in disagreement with working conditions—can threaten the health of these workers.
Subject:	COVID-19 (Doença) Dor lombar Segurança do trabalho Medicina do trabalho Professores
language:	eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country:	Brasil
Publisher:	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials:	UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department:	ICA - INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS AGRÁRIAS MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE MEDICINA PREVENTIVA SOCIAL
Rights:	Acesso Restrito
metadata.dc.identifier.doi:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-021-01793-w
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1843/53181
Issue Date:	15-Oct-2021
metadata.dc.url.externa:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00420-021-01793-w
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof:	International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
Appears in Collections:	Artigo de Periódico

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