Prevalence of Back Pain and its Socio-Demographic, Postural and Behavioral Associated Factors among Primary Schoolchildren in Baghdad City Khalil Nawar Sahib1,*, Alrubaey Mazin Ghazi Jasim1 1Family and Community Medicine DepartmentMustansiriyah University, College of Medicine, Iraq *Corresponding author: Nawar Sahib Khalil, E-mail: dr.nawar83@yahoo.com
Online published on 6 April, 2019. Abstract To identify back pain prevalence and it's socio-demographic, postural and behavioral associated factors among primary schoolchildren in Baghdad city. This study conducted at a random sample of 4667 pupils from multistage random sampling of 79 primary schools within Baghdad city, using developed, validated and piloted questionnaire form. Chi-square test was used for test the associations between back pain as outcome variable and socio-demographic, postural and behavioral factors as independent variables. Multivariate logistic regression was used to find out the predictors for back pain. The prevalence of back pain during last month prior to study was 43.4%. Back pain was significantly associated with socio-demographic, postural and behavioral factors. Multivariate analysis showed that, positive parent history, sleeping, sitting and lifting postures, physical exercise and its frequency, time spent in sedentary activities and habit of bed's study are significant predictors expected to increase back pain prevalence among primary schoolchildren. The prevalence of back pain is high and suggesting the necessity for increasing the awareness of general public about risk of back pain among children. Top Keywords Pupils, back pain, prevalence. Top |