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Aims: Low Back Pain (LBP) is a costly, recurrent and prevalent health problem among nurses. This study aimed to explore the effect of a multidimensional education program on changing unhealthy behaviors of nurses.

Instrument & Methods: This pre-posted designed study was carried out on 34 nursing students. Interventional program was accomplished in a three-hour session, in which the participants were familiar with musculoskeletal system, the right postures of this system, occupational factors which may cause skeletal LBP, skills of doing back exercise behaviors. The second and third hour of this session mentally factors influencing on LBP, the ways and techniques to manage daily stresses as well as healthy social skills in lifetime were discussed. The demographic and behavior questionnaires were filled at pre and post intervention. The data were entered into SPSS and analyzed through the paired T-Test.