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Title: Determination of pain intensity risk factors among school children with nonspecific low back pain
Authors: Akdağ, Beyza
Cavlak, Uğur
Cimbiz, A.
Camdeviren, H.
Keywords: Nonspecific low back pain
Pain intensity
Regression tree method
School children
adult
article
bed
body mass
body posture
child
computer program
cross-sectional study
exercise
female
human
independent variable
lifestyle
low back pain
major clinical study
male
obesity
outcome variable
pain assessment
pain intensity
pain parameters
questionnaire
risk factor
school child
self report
sex
Publisher: International Scientific Literature Inc.
Abstract: Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a common disease among people under the age of 20. To the best of our knowledge few studies have been carried out on LBP among school children in Turkey, and none of them studied the correlation between pain intensity and related variables with LBP. Material/Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out to investigate the risk factors and their correlations with pain intensity among 222 school children (106 girls and 116 boys) aged 10-18 years in the city of Denizli. A self-reported questionnaire was used to collect the data. The regression tree method (RTM) was used to determine the risk factors by using the STATISTICA program package. Pain intensity was the outcome variable, and 8 independent variables (body mass index (BMI), sex, regular exercise habit, studying posture, transportation to/from school, duration of studying, bag handling, and type of bed) were used to detect their effect on pain intensity. Results: The results showed that pain intensity is significantly affected by 4 independent variables: duration of studying, type of bed, transportation to/from school, and BMI. The overall mean and standard deviation of pain intensity was 2.58±0.86 (minimum=1, maximum=5). Conclusions: Results from the literature, as well as our study, show that taking parents' and teachers' concerns seriously is of vital importance. Our results indicate that parents and teachers should be informed about duration of studying, type of bed, transportation and obesity as risk factors predicting NLBP in school children. © Med Sci Monit.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/6164
https://doi.org/10.12659/MSM.881378
ISSN: 1234-1010
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