ABSTRACT
Health workers usually have the highest incidence of work-related back injuries which influence their work.Low back pain patients suffer not only from physical discomfort but also from functional disabilities that maycause impairment and interfere with their quality of life. This study is aimed at evaluating low back pain,disability and quality of life among health care workers. This is a descriptive study which was conducted at fourprimary health care centres in Tabuk. Non-probability purposive sampling method was used to select 120health workers. For data collection, the three tools used were a pre-established questionnaire, Oswestry LowBack Pain Disability Questionnaire for evaluating pain and disability, and the 36-item Short-Form HealthSurvey (SF-36) for evaluating the quality of life. Disability was found in 70.8% of the studied sample. Totalquality of life score was low in 77.5% of the studied sample and there was a highly significant negativecorrelation between total quality of life score and total back pain of the studied sample. Low back paincontinues to be a common occupational disease for health workers. This health issue would also have animportant impact on their job and the quality of healthcare as well. In order to decrease Low back pain, healthcare workers should be included in specific education program. A consistent methodological strategy foroptimizing the qualiy of life problem among health care workers should be developed by health care managers.