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Background: Low back pain is a common problem during pregnancy. One of two pregnant women usually experience backache during pregnaszncy. This problem lowers the quality of life for many women.Objective: To determine prevalence and risk factors of low back pain during pregnancy in women who delivered at Srinagarind Hospital.Design: Descriptive studySetting: post-partum wards, Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen UniversitySubjects: Three hundred twenty pregnant women were interviewed within 24 – 48 hours after giving birth.Measurement: Demographic data, medical records related to back pain, previous pregnancy were collected by an interviewer using structural Questionnaires. Percentages of back pain and other variables were calculated. Association between back pain and studied factors were determined using Chi square test.Results: There were 320 pregnant women. The pregnant women’s mean age and standard deviation were 21.41 and 4.20 years. It was found that 77.2% of pregnant women suffered from low back pain during pregnancy (95% CI = 72.6, 81.8%). Fifty five point nine percent of the pregnant women experienced some degree of low back pain. Twenty one point three percept of the pregnant women were unable to continue their work because of moderate or severe low back pain. Factors which was found to be significantly associated with an increased risk to develop low back pain during pregnancy was the women’s height. Even though a history of epidural anesthesia during a previous lab our and weight were not found to be risk factors in low back pain significantly but there was a tendency.Conclustion: The prevalence of low back pain during pregnancy from this study was 77.2% (95% CI = 72.6, 81.8%). Maternal height was fond to be a significant risk factor.
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Background : Background : Musculoskeleta pain is a major problem in health. To know the villagers’ seeking behavior will help understand the thinking system, beliefs, and the patterns of treatment of people and will be beneficial in developing the health system.Objective : This research was aimed too study health seeking behavior for musculoskeletal pain of villager laborers and seniorsMethod : a cross-sectional descriptive study and collecting qualitative dataSetting : Chiang Yun District, Mahasarakham Province. Results : It was found that most people used 2 stages in seeking health care for musculoskeletal pain, both mild and severe pain, but the proportion of health seeking in the second stage of severe pain was higher than mild pain. About 65.9% (95% CI : 60.0-71.9) of severe pain used the second stage while the mild pain used only 56.8% (95% CI : 50.9-61.9). The three patterns of treatment often used in mild pain were the following ; a) from massage to self – medication to folk healer, c) from folk healer to self-medication. For severe pain, the three patterns often used were the following ; a) from massage to self-medication, b)from community hospital to private clinic, c) from self-medication to community hospital.Keyword : health seeking behavior, musculoskeletal pain