Sintomas músculos-esqueléticos em escolares da 5ª a 8ª séries do ensino fundamental: prevalência e fatores associados

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Julio Alberto Agante
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USC
• Texto Completo: http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/121
• topic: SINTOMAS MÚSCULOS-ESQUELÉTICOS; ATIVIDADE FÍSICA; ATIVIDADES SEDENTÁRIAS; COLUNA VERTEBRAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYMPTOMS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEDENTARY ACTIVITY; VERTEBRAL COLUMN; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA

The present study sought to verify the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms in the vertebral column and its relation with the levels of physical activity, sedentary activity (computer use and television viewing - the so-called screen time), and tabagism. In order to achieve such an objective an epidemiologic transversal study to evaluate all students in the 5th grade of fundamental level course in Ourinhos (SP) municipal schools. A structured protocol and a checksheet of musculoskeletal symptoms were used for the data collection. Descriptive analysis and bivariate analysis were done using Chi-square test. High and satisfactory rates of both genders participation in physical education classes were found, 95.90% for the boys and 90.83% for girls, but the participation in physical activities during leisure time are lower, 68.82% for boys against only 37.51% for girls. The habit of doing sedentary screen time (computer use and television viewing) also presented high rates for both genders, 50.27% for boys and 53.06% for girls who spent 3 or more hours daily watching TV. The incidence of cervical, thoracic and lumbar pain was significant for both sexes and, in the three regions of the vertebral column, the girls presented a greater incidence of pain than the boys.