Correlation Between Quality of Life and Disability in Middle Aged Beauticians with Low Back Pain

BACKGROUND: In the beauty industry the people who are working are named as cosmetologists, beauticians and beauty therapists. Low back pain is one of the most prevalent musculoskeletal conditions and most common cause of disability. Beauticians were found to be more affected from low back pain due to their altered posture during walking, static postures for prolonged period of time. So the purpose of this study is to correlate quality of life and disability in middle aged beauticians with low back pain. METHODOLOGY: A convenience sampling method was used to administer questionnaires to 30 middle aged (26 to 40 years, 15 female and 15 male) beauticians with low back pain using the short form 12 and modified Oswestry disability index (MODI) and results were analysed. Beauticians were selected according to inclusion criteria which included having work experience of minimum 1-2 years and Numeric pain rating scale ≥4 and exclusion criteria included beauticians with severe spinal pathologies and previous surgeries before 6 months. Quality of life of the beauticians was assessed by SF12 and disability by Modified Oswestry disability index. RESULTS: Spearman correlation test was used to Analyse data and data was analysed by using SPSS 20.00 version. A significant negative strong correlation was found between disability and physical component score (PCS) (r=-0.746 and p<0.05), But no significant correlation was noticed between disability and mental component score (MCS) (r=0.067 and p>0.05) in middle aged beauticians with low back pain. CONCLUSION: Disability and physical component of quality of life was correlated in beauticians with low back pain. Weak correlation was found between mental component of quality of life and disability in beauticians with low back pain. Key words: Disability, Quality of life, low back pain, beauticians, Modified Oswestry disability index