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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.
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Background and Objective: Digital media can be considered as an important element of life for today's children and adolescents since theyspend a lot of time using it. This increased use of digital media is associated with poor behavior and health status. Society in general andpractitioners in public health in particular should promote digital media use strategies through health education. This study is aimed atevaluating the impact of using digital technology on children physical, social and behavior health. Methodology: This is a descriptive studywhich was conducted at the primary health care centers of Tabuk. Through purposive sampling, 300 people were included in the study. Aquestionnaire and a checklist were used as the tools for data collection. Results: There was a significant relationship between theattachment to technology and both physical and psychological health of the studied children. There was also a significant differencebetween the awareness of mothers regarding both negative and positive effects of technology and total effects of technology at the pre andpost-intervention stages. Conclusion: Using technology had an impact on both physical and psychological health of children, and there wasan improvement in mothers’ awareness in this regard. This reflects the key role of health education on improving the awareness of mothersabout the effects of using technology on the health of their children.