title: Prevalence and its risk factors for low back pain among operation and maintenance personnel in wind farms.
abstract: With the increasingly severe energy shortage and climate change problems, developing wind power has become a key energy development strategy and an inevitable choice to protect the ecological environment worldwide. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) and analyze its risk factors among operation and maintenance personnel in wind farms (OMPWF).
  
  
  
  A cross-sectional survey of 151 OMPWF was performed, and a comprehensive questionnaire, which was modified and combined from Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaires (NMQ), Washington State Ergonomics Tool (WSET) and Syndrome Checklist-90(SCL-90) was used to assess the prevalence and risk factors of LBP among OMPWF.
  
  
  
  The prevalence of LBP was 88.74 % (134/151) among OMPWF. The multivariable model highlighted four related factors: backrest, somatization, squatting and lifting objects weighing more than 10 lb more than twice per minute.
  
  
  
  The prevalence of LBP among OMPWF appears to be high and highlights a major occupational health concern.
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Protection and Ergonomics, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NO.29, Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Protection and Ergonomics, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NO.29, Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Labor Health Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Center in Zhuzhou, Zhuzhou, 412011, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shuangqiu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Labor Health Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Center in Zhuzhou, Zhuzhou, 412011, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xinhe
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Labor Health Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Center in Zhuzhou, Zhuzhou, 412011, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Wind power Division of Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Institute Corporation, China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock (CSR), Zhuzhou, 412007, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.affiliation: Wind power Division of Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Institute Corporation, China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock (CSR), Zhuzhou, 412007, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, 412007, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Guilian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Protection and Ergonomics, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NO.29, Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yuzhen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Protection and Ergonomics, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NO.29, Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xueyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Protection and Ergonomics, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NO.29, Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yongen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Protection and Ergonomics, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NO.29, Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, People's Republic of China. wangzhongxu2003@163.com.
authors.forename: Zhongxu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014919:Wind
keywords: Ergonomic; Low back pain; Risk factors; Wind farms