Introduction: The aim of this study is to compare the level of awareness & attitude of AJA nurses from the prevention & treatment methods of low back pain before & after of Back School workshops – Tehran2013.

Methods: 200 nursing staff of Aja hospitals in Tehran (501, 502, 505, Khanevadeh, Golestan) Participated in a back school work shop. The level of awareness & attitude before & after of the workshop was evaluated & the results from the study were analyzed by the software SPSS v (18), pair t-test.

Results: The findings showed the primary level of nurse’s awareness of low back pain is 15.5% as weak, 68.2% as moderate and 16.3% as good. After participating in back school work shop, nurse’s awareness of back pain was 3.8 as weak, 48.9 as moderate, and 47.3 as good. The difference of awareness level before and after attending back school, significantly increased (P<0.001). Also the results showed 20.6% of nurses before attending the back school had positive attitude, 65.7% had neutral attitude and 13.7 had negative attitude to low back pain. After attending back school 45.6% of them had positive attitude, 49.9% had neutral attitude and 4.5 had negative attitude. The difference of attitude before and after of attending back school is statistically significant (P<0.001).

Conclusion: Participation in training courses on prevention and treatment of low back pain increase nurse’s awareness of back pain. Also increase positive attitude and decrease negative and neutral attitude. The use of training methods will be effective in increasing of back pain prevention behavior.