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  • Musculoskeletal disorder also suffered by the hospital worker, including nurses. The highest prevalence of muskuloskelatal disorder that suffered by nurses are low back pain, shoulder pain, and low extremity pain. Low back pain is a musculoskeletal disorder which caused by multifactorial, one of this multifactor is personal factor. The aim of this study is to analyze the association of personal factor (age, years of work, body mass index and sport activity) and low back pain among ICU and ICCU nurses at XYZ hospital. This quantitative study applied cross sectional design. All 46 nurses at XYZ ICU and ICCU hospital were taken as respondent. Data was collected through questionairres and also weight and height measurement. Bivariat analysis showed that nurse low back pain have: a quite strong association with body mass index (r = 0,424); a weak association age of nurse (r = 0,310), years of work (r = 0,378); a very weak association with nurse sport activity (r = 0,149).