4-year longitudinal study of the assessment of body posture, back pain, postural and life habits of schoolchildren

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Bruna Nichele da
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Furlanetto, Tássia Silveira, Schmit, Emanuelle Francine Detogni, Candotti, Cláudia Tarragô, Noll, Matias, Sedrez, Juliana Adami
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/203996
• topic: Dor nas costas; Postura; Adolescentes; Crianças; Back Pain; Posture; Adolescent; Child; Longitudinal Studies

The aim of this study was to evaluate the behaviour of postural variables and the associated factors, like back pain and life habits, in schoolchildren during a period of four years. Forty-two school children underwent a postural assessment using Digital Image-Based Postural Assessment software. They also answered the self-administered questionnaire titled, “Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument” to evaluate their back pain and life habits. We observed a significant trend of forward head, thoracic hyper kyphosis, and lumbar hyper lordosis in the entire group, as well as a trend of cervical rectification in girls. Both boys and girls presented a constant frequency in back pain, but girls presented higher prevalence along the years. We found a high prevalence of poor sitting posture in male (between 72.2-89.5%) and female (between 73.3-100%). We also found that girls had poor posture due to the way they carried their school supplies. However, occurred a decrease of time spent in front of television for male (from 87% to 10.5%) and female (from 93.3% to 0%). Significant changes occurred in analysed variables over evaluation period.