HUBUNGAN ANTARA KARAKTERISTIK RESPONDEN DAN SIKAP KERJA DUDUK DENGAN KELUHAN NYERI PUNGGUNG BAWAH (LOW BACK PAIN) PADA PEKERJA BATIK TULIS (Studi di Sentra Industri Batik Desa Sumberpakem Kecamatan Sumberjambe Kabupaten Jember)

Abstract

The batik worker is one of the occupational working with risk of low back pain. Low back pain is one of clinical syndrome which marked by pain as the main symptom or the pain in low back area. This research aim was to analyze the relationship among respondent characteristic and awkward posture with low back pain by quantitative method with cross sectional design. This research carried out at batik centre industry in Sumberpakem, Sumberjambe sub-district. This research technique analyze use Cramer Coefficient C statistic test with SPSS 11.5 program for windows with α= 0,05. The results of this research showed that there are significant relations among age (0,031<0,05), length of working (0,00<0,05), nutritional status(0,03<0,05) and also awkward posture (0,001<0,05) with low back pain. Then not significant relationhip between sport habitual (0,201>0,05)with low back pain. The suggestion for workers are urged them to have warming up before start to work and change their position every fifteen minutes.