The Effects of Physical Activity Digital Product Use and Psychological Health on Low Back Pain in Adolescents: School Based Study in Eastern Turkey.

Objectives: Low back pain is an important public health problem because of it's high prevalence. The aim of this study was to determine of prevalence low back pain and to evaluate the effect of physical activity, digital product use and mental health on low back pain. Patients and Methods: Total 128...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 158 - 167
Autores principales: Nazik, Feyza, Disli, Faruk, Yilmaz, Emine, Sonmez, Mehtap
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Publicado: International Journal of Caring Sciences Jan-Apr2022
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Sumario:Objectives: Low back pain is an important public health problem because of it's high prevalence. The aim of this study was to determine of prevalence low back pain and to evaluate the effect of physical activity, digital product use and mental health on low back pain. Patients and Methods: Total 1285 high school students in Bingöl province were included in this cross sectional study. The data were collected from the students by the questionnaire method. Results: The mean age of the students were 15.9±1.0 and their 52.1 % were women. The rate of students who evaluate the family atmosphere as warm was 57.0%. Of the participants, 26.7% were exercising regularly. The proportion of students experiencing physical stress in any period of their life was 30.9%. It was determined that half of the students used computers and half of the users had low back pain due to the use of computers. The frequency of low back pain was found to be 24.1%. One-fourth of the students did not attend school due to pain. It was observed that there was a positive correlation between the presence of parental back pain, exposure to physical stress, have a oppressive authoritarian family, poor economic situation, daily sitting and increased tablet usage time and back pain. L. Adolescents BP in the adolescents was often accompanied by poor psychological health. Conclusion: It should be educated about postur, use time of tablet, sitting time, their smoking habits and students should be changed their life style with low back pain should be evaluated psychologically.