OBJECTIVE: To measure the magnitude of the problem of low-back pain among 10- to 18-year-old Kuwaiti schoolchildren in Hawalli Governorate. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional multistage stratified random sample of 400 schoolchildren (199 males and 201 females) of ages 10-18 years were selected from two junior and two high schools in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait. Data on age, gender and characteristics of low-back pain such as duration, location and frequency were collected through personal interviews using a questionnaire. Low-back pain was defined as pain in the back from the 12th rib to the buttock area. RESULTS: According to our definition, reported lifetime prevalence of low-back pain was found to be 57.8% (50.8% in male and 64.7% in female students), while the point prevalence was 35% (20.6% in male and 39.3% in female students). More female students reported low-back pain than male students, and the prevalence of low-back pain was found to increase with age in both sexes. The age of onset of low-back pain was 14 years in males and 13 years in females. The majority of students (92.1% in males, 84.6% in females) reported pain in the low back. Almost 46% of students related their low-back pain to accidents. A significantly higher proportion of male students (58.4%, compared to females 36.2%) reported low-back pain caused by accident or with duration of recovery less than a week (21.8% for males as compared to 16.2% for female students). Female students reported more recurrent or continual low-back pain. CONCLUSION: Low-back pain is common among Kuwaiti students in Hawalli Governorate. Prevalence of low-back pain increased with age in both sexes. Female students reported more frequent low-back pain than male students. Copyright 2004 S. Karger AG, Basel
OBJECTIVE: To measure the magnitude of the problem of low-back pain among 10- to 18-year-old Kuwaiti schoolchildren in Hawalli Governorate. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional multistage stratified random sample of 400 schoolchildren (199 males and 201 females) of ages 10-18 years were selected from two junior and two high schools in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait. Data on age, gender and characteristics of low-back pain such as duration, location and frequency were collected through personal interviews using a questionnaire. Low-back pain was defined as pain in the back from the 12th rib to the buttock area. RESULTS: According to our definition, reported lifetime prevalence of low-back pain was found to be 57.8% (50.8% in male and 64.7% in female students), while the point prevalence was 35% (20.6% in male and 39.3% in female students). More female students reported low-back pain than male students, and the prevalence of low-back pain was found to increase with age in both sexes. The age of onset of low-back pain was 14 years in males and 13 years in females. The majority of students (92.1% in males, 84.6% in females) reported pain in the low back. Almost 46% of students related their low-back pain to accidents. A significantly higher proportion of male students (58.4%, compared to females 36.2%) reported low-back pain caused by accident or with duration of recovery less than a week (21.8% for males as compared to 16.2% for female students). Female students reported more recurrent or continual low-back pain. CONCLUSION:Low-back pain is common among Kuwaiti students in Hawalli Governorate. Prevalence of low-back pain increased with age in both sexes. Female students reported more frequent low-back pain than male students. Copyright 2004 S. Karger AG, Basel
Authors: Maziar Moradi-Lakeh; Mohammad H Forouzanfar; Stein Emil Vollset; Charbel El Bcheraoui; Farah Daoud; Ashkan Afshin; Raghid Charara; Ibrahim Khalil; Hideki Higashi; Mohamed Magdy Abd El Razek; Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri; Khurshid Alam; Nadia Akseer; Nawal Al-Hamad; Raghib Ali; Mohammad AbdulAziz AlMazroa; Mahmoud A Alomari; Abdullah A Al-Rabeeah; Ubai Alsharif; Khalid A Altirkawi; Suleman Atique; Alaa Badawi; Lope H Barrero; Mohammed Basulaiman; Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi; Neeraj Bedi; Isabela M Bensenor; Rachelle Buchbinder; Hadi Danawi; Samath D Dharmaratne; Faiez Zannad; Maryam S Farvid; Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad; Farshad Farzadfar; Florian Fischer; Rahul Gupta; Randah Ribhi Hamadeh; Samer Hamidi; Masako Horino; Damian G Hoy; Mohamed Hsairi; Abdullatif Husseini; Mehdi Javanbakht; Jost B Jonas; Amir Kasaeian; Ejaz Ahmad Khan; Jagdish Khubchandani; Ann Kristin Knudsen; Jacek A Kopec; Raimundas Lunevicius; Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek; Azeem Majeed; Reza Malekzadeh; Kedar Mate; Alem Mehari; Michele Meltzer; Ziad A Memish; Mojde Mirarefin; Shafiu Mohammed; Aliya Naheed; Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer; In-Hwan Oh; Eun-Kee Park; Emmanuel Kwame Peprah; Farshad Pourmalek; Mostafa Qorbani; Anwar Rafay; Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar; Rahman Shiri; Sajjad Ur Rahman; Rajesh Kumar Rai; Saleem M Rana; Sadaf G Sepanlou; Masood Ali Shaikh; Ivy Shiue; Abla Mehio Sibai; Diego Augusto Santos Silva; Jasvinder A Singh; Jens Christoffer Skogen; Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi; Kingsley N Ukwaja; Ronny Westerman; Naohiro Yonemoto; Seok-Jun Yoon; Mustafa Z Younis; Zoubida Zaidi; Maysaa El Sayed Zaki; Stephen S Lim; Haidong Wang; Theo Vos; Mohsen Naghavi; Alan D Lopez; Christopher J L Murray; Ali H Mokdad Journal: Ann Rheum Dis Date: 2017-02-16 Impact factor: 19.103