Track: Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

Abstract

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the health problems among the elderly's in the Philippines such as functional mobility, daily living activities, sleep quality, psychological symptoms and reduced health-related quality of life. Different research survey questions were used to determine the factors affecting the lower back pain of the elderly Filipinos. The aim to help the elderly, researchers identified several factors that greatly contribute to having low back pain (LBP). The researchers used the tool Minitab 18 to get the desired results of the gathered data, the statistical tool to analyze data’s relationship to other variables, the reliability of the dependent variable to the factors. The data was analyzed through ordinal logistic regression through normality test. Data gathered showed a normal distribution with a p-value of 0.057. According to the analysis, the sleep disorder is most likely the main predictor affecting the lower back part of the elderly body. The recommendations provided to this study is to help elderly people to keep a good physical health condition, sleep quality improvement and having a regular daily exercise also, things to avoid to reduce the risk of having low back pain.