Objective: To assess the association of sedentary life style and musculoskeletal disorders in school going children.
Methodology: This was a cross sectional survey and data were collected from different private schools of Karachi. A sample size of 385 school going children from 6th to 10th standard of both gender were selected. A face to face interview was conducted and a Questionnaire was given. A self-administered Nordic questionnaire was used for collecting the data.
Results: A total of 385 subjects participated and 185(48.1%) were male and 200(51.9%) female. Physical activity was done by 372(96.6%) participants for 1-5 hours and 13(3.4%) for 6-10 hours. Those with sitting posture using mobile phone had pain in upper back in 123(31.9%) of participant after sitting for 1-5 hours.
Conclusion: Sedentary life style predisposed study participants for having pain/ache/ in number of different parts of body. This was more common in neck followed by upper back.
Sujata Mandhwani, Sadaf Zia, Arsalan Ahmed Shaikh, Erum Tanveer, Salman Matiullah Shaikh. (2020) Association of sedentary life style and musculoskeletal disorders among school going children: an emerging dilemma, , Volume 45, Issue-4.
