DDI description: Back Pain, Sickness Absences and Leg Length Discrepancy 2008 DDI-kuvailu: Selkäkipu, sairauspoissaolot ja jalkojen pituusero 2008 3017 Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive 3.0.0 Back Pain, Sickness Absences and Leg Length Discrepancy 2008 [metadata]. Metadata version 3.0.0 (2019-01-14). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [producer and distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3017; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3017 FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records), joiden tekijä on Suomen yhteiskuntatieteellinen tietoarkisto (Finnish Social Science Data Archive), on lisensoitu Creative Commons 1.0 Yleismaailmallinen (CC0 1.0) -lisenssillä. FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records) by Suomen yhteiskuntatieteellinen tietoarkisto (Finnish Social Science Data Archive) are licensed under a Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license. FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records) av Finlands samhällsvetenskapliga dataarkiv (Finnish Social Science Data Archive) är licensierade under en Creative Commons 1.0 Universiell (CC0 1.0) licens. Back Pain, Sickness Absences and Leg Length Discrepancy 2008 Selkäkipu, sairauspoissaolot ja jalkojen pituusero 2008 3017 urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3017 10.60686/t-fsd3017 Rannisto, Satu In accordance with the agreement between FSD and the depositor. Finnish Social Science Data Archive Individual datasets

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3.0 Rannisto, Satu (Valmennustalo Sarastus): Back Pain, Sickness Absences and Leg Length Discrepancy 2008 [dataset]. Data version 3.0 (2019-01-14). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3017; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3017 activities of daily living depression health health status job satisfaction pain back pain physical activities physical mobility sick leave sleep smoking symptoms quality of life Medical and health sciences Working conditions Specific diseases, disorders and medical conditions

The survey charted leg length discrepancy as a risk factor for back pain in both sitting and standing work. The connection between leg length discrepancy and back pain was investigated both by cross-sectional and by intervention design. The results from the cross-sectional design are presented in this data.

The cross-sectional part of the study examined the connection between leg length discrepancy and sick leave days caused by back pain. Employees who mainly stood at work were compared with employees who mostly sat. Employees who worked standing up worked in a butcher shop and employees who worked sitting down worked in customer service.

Leg length discrepancy was measured with a laser-based ultrasound method developed for the study, which is a non-invasive and fast method for reliably measuring limb discrepancy in standing position. Absences due to back pain, gender, and age were collected from the employer's register. In the questionnaire, the respondents were asked about their stress levels, symptoms of depression, work, smoking, and sleeping as well as their physical health and whether it inhibited their daily activities. They were also asked to evaluate their lower back and sciatica pain on the visual analogue scale (VAS).

Magnitude of lower back pain, magnitude of sciatica pain, number of days the respondent suffered from back pain, and the number of absence from work due to back pain (M50-54 in ICD-10) were chosen to be the outcome variables for the study.

Survey in 2007-2008, measurements in summer 2008 Finland Finland Nurmo Individual Individual Employees over the age of 35 in Atria's food factory in Nurmo (Atria Finland Ltd, Nurmo), who worked in customer service or the butcher shop, and who had worked in the same tasks for at least 10 years employees suffering from rheumatism and employees who had fractures in their legs Quantitative Cross-section CrossSection Rannisto, Satu Total universe/Complete enumeration TotalUniverseCompleteEnumeration

All employees in customer services (n=50) and the butcher shop (n=169), who fulfilled the criteria (at least 10 years in the same tasks, over 35 years of age) were selected for the survey.

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire.Paper Physical measurements and tests MeasurementsAndTests.Physical Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI) SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire.CAWI Structured questionnaire Questionnaire.Structured Technical instrument(s) TechnicalInstruments Absences due to illness were gathered from the employer's register. Waist size and cholesterol values were received from employee health care. There are no weight variables in the data. Butcher shop 67.5 Customer service 68.0 Detailed and specific data description in Finnish and English. The data are checked and processed in detail. If necessary, the data are anonymised. Finnish Social Science Data Archive The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study. The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication. Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi. The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data. The data have been anonymised during archiving. During anonymisation variables height, weight, BMI, and age have been categorised, and extreme values of variable "waist size" have been recoded into broader categories. The exact ranges for categorised variables can be found in the description of these variables in the codebook. The development of the laser-based ultrasound method used for measuring leg length discrepancy is described in the article: Measurement of leg-length discrepancy using laser-based ultrasound method. Rannisto S, Paalanne N, Rannisto PH, Haapanen A, Oksaoja S, Uitti J, et al. Acta Radiologica, 2011; vol. 52, no 10, 1143-1146. doi: 10.1258/ar.2011.110268 FSD3025 Back pain, Sickness Absences and Leg Length Discrepancy: Intervention 2008-2009 Rannisto, Satu & Okuloff, Annaleena & Uitti, Jukka & Paananen, Markus & Rannisto, Pasi-Heikki & Malmivaara, Antti & Karppinen, Jaro (2015). Leg-length discrepancy is associated with low back pain among those who must stand while working. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 16, 110-116. doi: 10.1186/s12891-015-0571-9 Leg-length discrepancy is associated with low back pain among those who must stand while working 10.1186/s12891-015-0571-9 Rannisto, Satu & Okuloff, Annaleena & Uitti, Jukka & Paananen, Markus & Rannisto, Pasi-Heikki & Malmivaara, Antti & Karppinen, Jaro (2019). Correction of leg-length discrepancy among meat cutters with low back pain: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 20:105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2478-3 Correction of leg-length discrepancy among meat cutters with low back pain: a randomized controlled trial 10.1186/s12891-019-2478-3