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Introduction: The purpose of this systematic mapping review is to chart the characteristics of the epidemiological literature that reports associations between spine concerns and other health conditions. Methods: Papers published in any language in indexed, peer-reviewed journals that include any measure of association between any spine concern and other health condition using an observational epidemiologic study design will be included. Papers about cadaveric or animal studies, without measures of association between spine concerns and other health conditions, about health behaviors, and not of an observational epidemiologic study design will be excluded. PubMed, EMBASE, APA PsycInfo, Scopus, and Web of Science Core Collection will be searched from inception through the search date. Tables, bar graphs, and heat maps will be used to present the results. Discussion: We will report the total number of included studies. We will report the studies that have evaluated the measures of association between spine concerns and OHCs and the most frequently studied associations between spine concerns and OHCs. Bibliometric properties and characteristics of these papers will be reported.

BackgroundNeck pain is a prevalent musculoskeletal condition among workers in the United States. This study explores a set of workplace psychosocial and organization-related factors for neck pain.MethodsData used for this study come from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey which provides a representative sample of the US population. To account for the complex sampling design, the Taylor linearized variance estimation method was used. Logistic regression models were constructed to measure the associations.ResultsThis study demonstrated significant associations between neck pain and a set of workplace risk factors, including work-family imbalance, exposure to a hostile work environment and job insecurity, non-standard work arrangements, multiple jobs, and long work hours.ConclusionWorkers with neck pain may benefit from intervention programs that address issues related to these workplace risk factors. Future studies exploring both psychosocial risk factors and physical risk factors with a longitudinal design will be important. Am. J. Ind. Med. 59:549-560, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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