Musculoskeletal symptoms and computer use among Finnish adolescents--pain intensity and inconvenience to everyday life: a cross-sectional study.
Background: Musculoskeletal symptoms among adolescents are related to the time spent using a computer, but little is known about the seriousness of the symptoms or how much they affect everyday life. The purpose of the present study was to examine the intensity of musculoskeletal pain and level of i...
| Published in: | BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 41 - 42 |
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BioMed Central
2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104359935&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104359935 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14712474 1CI5 jtl: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders issn: 14712474 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2012 vid: 13 iid: 1 pid: 24147 pub: BioMed Central artinfo: ui: 104359935 104359935 NLM22439805 2011642902 10.1186/1471-2474-13-41 NLM22439805 PMC3348031 104359935 ppf: 41 ppct: 1 formats: tig: atl: Musculoskeletal symptoms and computer use among Finnish adolescents--pain intensity and inconvenience to everyday life: a cross-sectional study. aug: au: Hakala, Paula T Saarni, Lea A Punamäki, Raija-Leena Wallenius, Marjut A Nygård, Clas-Håkan Rimpelä, Arja H affil: School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. paula.t.hakala@uta.fi sug: subj: Activities of Daily Living Computer Terminals Economic Aspects of Illness Musculoskeletal Diseases Etiology Pain Etiology Quality of Life Adolescence Chi Square Test Child Cross Sectional Studies Finland Human Logistic Regression Multivariate Analysis Musculoskeletal Diseases Diagnosis Musculoskeletal Diseases Physiopathology Musculoskeletal Diseases Psychosocial Factors Odds Ratio Pain Diagnosis Pain Physiopathology Pain Psychosocial Factors Pain Measurement Questionnaires Risk Assessment Risk Factors Severity of Illness Indices Time Factors Adolescent: 13-18 years Child: 6-12 years ab: Background: Musculoskeletal symptoms among adolescents are related to the time spent using a computer, but little is known about the seriousness of the symptoms or how much they affect everyday life. The purpose of the present study was to examine the intensity of musculoskeletal pain and level of inconvenience to everyday life, in relation to time spent using a computer.Methods: In a survey, 436 school children (12 to 13 and 15 to 16 years of age), answered a questionnaire on musculoskeletal and computer-associated musculoskeletal symptoms in neck-shoulder, low back, head, eyes, hands, and fingers or wrists. Pain intensity (computer-associated symptoms) and inconvenience to everyday life (musculoskeletal symptoms) were measured using a visual analogue scale. Based on the frequency and intensity, three categories were formed to classify pain at each anatomic site: none, mild, and moderate/severe. The association with time spent using the computer was analyzed by multinomial logistic regression.Results: Moderate/severe pain intensity was most often reported in the neck-shoulders (21%); head (20%); and eyes (14%); and moderate/severe inconvenience to everyday life was most often reported due to head (29%), neck-shoulders (21%), and low back (16%) pain. Compared with those using the computer less than 3.6 hours/week, computer use of ≥ 14 hours/week, was associated with moderate/severe increase in computer-associated musculoskeletal pain at all anatomic sites (odds ratio [OR] = 2.9-4.4), and moderate/severe inconvenience to everyday life due to low back (OR = 2.5) and head (OR = 2.0) pain.Conclusions: Musculoskeletal symptoms causing moderate/severe pain and inconvenience to everyday life are common among adolescent computer users. Daily computer use of 2 hours or more increases the risk for pain at most anatomic sites. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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