Effects of Postural education in the musculoskeletal pain in children of basic education

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12616001365459
• Date of registration: 30/09/2016
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Research Centre for Human Movement Sciences (CIMH) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
• Public title: Effects of Postural education in the musculoskeletal pain in children of basic education
• Scientific title: Postural education: the relationship between Postural habits and musculoskeletal pain in children of basic education
• Date of first enrolment: 27/03/2014
• Target sample size: 200
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12616001365459.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Educational / counselling / training; Allocation: Non-randomised trial; Masking: Open (masking not used);Assignment: Parallel;
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Portugal

Contacts

• Name: Prof Gustavo Coutinho Desouzart

• Name: Prof Gustavo Coutinho Desouzart

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - Young and teenager,
- Belonging to the2nd Basic Education Cycle (5th grade) and the 3rd Basic Education Cycle (9th grade);
- Belonging to the Basic School 2/3 D. Dinis
Exclusion criteria: No exclusion criteria
All students that the parents consented, were analyzed

Age minimum: 10 Years
Age maximum: 15 Years
Gender: Both males and females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorders

Musculoskeletal pain;postural changes;
Musculoskeletal pain
postural changes

Intervention(s)

Considered the best way in order to maintain a healthy body and pain-free, maintaining perfect posture, along with regular physical activity, increase awareness to design an educational program of preventive approach, designed to be implemented in the environment school. This program, as well as the back-school, developed and implemented by Zachrisson (1981), aims to reduce the number of musculoskeletal complaints, especially in the spine area, presented by school children. It is believed that postural educational habits also play an essential role in the health of children, the Back-school program is responsible for bringing postural education for the school context, with different preventive strategies for children to apply in their daily lives.
This back-school education program recommends the following postural habits - Seated; standing; lying; backpack and transportation; Weight of transport:
- Sitting: Maintenance of standing back against the back of the chair; positioning the region of the closest possible glutes of the chair and your feet flat on the floor. Where the chair did not allow proper support of the feet on the ground, the students were asked to put a support (books, shoe box);
- Standing with the upright head; back straight and feet apart at shoulder width;
- Lying in lateral decubitus cushion in the head with a height equal to distance between the shoulder and neck and pillow between your legs;
- Carry a backpack with a strap on each shoulder, avoid carrying more than 10% by body weight.
- Survey and object transfer: proper way to pick up objects on the floor: perform the activity bending your knees and not the spine; correct way to transfer objects from one place to another, stand in front of the object, hold it with both hands and

Primary Outcome(s)

Analysis a musculoskeletal pain assessment in school age children using questionnaire according to Body Discomfort Scale (Corlett and Bishop, 1976) in order to verify and categorize the pain felt (where 0 corresponded to no pain and 5 to the full amount of pain felt by the subject), and its duration (acute pain, subacute or chronic pain).[At baseline and after 1 month]

Analysis an initial postural behavior assessment in school age children using questionnaire according to Body Discomfort Scale (Corlett and Bishop, 1976) and postural habits and changes during the school year.[At baseline and after 1 month]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Analyse whether ergonomics postural recommended were implemented.[Twice a weeks during four weeks after ergonomics postural recommended, there was a personal or telephone contact with teachers and parents]

Correlation between musculoskeletal pain and postural behaviour when ergonomics postural recommended was implemented using questionnaire according to Body Discomfort Scale (Corlett and Bishop, 1976).[One month after postural recommendations are given]

Secondary ID(s)

None

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Research Centre for Human Movement Sciences (CIMH) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Research Centre for Human Movement Sciences (CIMH)