Yoshimoto T, et al. - Researchers examined Japanese workers at 95 nursing care facilities in Ishikawa Prefecture to assess the prevalence of chronic low back pain (LBP) interfering with work and related factors of chronic LBP including psychosocial factors in these workers. Among 2,242 eligible workers, 1,345 participants completed a self-administered questionnaire that queried regarding following items: individual characteristics, severity of LBP, sleep problem, fear-avoidance beliefs (Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: TSK), STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST), fatigue, somatizing tendency, and work-related stress such as job satisfaction, job demand, interpersonal stress at work, and social support. They observed chronic LBP that interfered with work to be significantly correlated to psychological factors, including fear-avoidance beliefs or somatizing tendency, among these workers. Results thereby emphasize addressing these factors in addition to screening for the risk factors of LBP chronicity by SBST when evaluating workers with chronic disabling LBP.