Current status and influencing factors of scoliosis of children in Shijiazhuang / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To learn the current status of scoliosis of children and its influencing factors, so as to provide reference for the prevention and treatment.@*Methods@#A total of 1 500 students selected from 4 kindergartens and 3 primary schools in Shijiazhuang were tested by static posture assessment and Adams flexion test to get the values,and self designed questionnaire was designed to investigate the related factors.@*Results@#Totally 78 students were found with scoliosis, accounting for 5.47%. Among them, 17 boys (2.31% in boys) and 61 girls (8.85% in girls) were found with scoliosis, and the differences were of statistical significance ( P <0.01). And the main risk factors of scoliosis in children included holding too much, less crawling, poor sitting and standing posture, lack of vitamin D and calcium, long term unilateral exertion sports, insufficient exercise time, improper height of table and chair, as well as being girl( OR =1.58, 0.58, 2.22, 2.13, 3.02, 2.18, 2.14, 2.86, 3.04, 2.59, 1.16, P <0.05).@*Conclusion@#The detection rate of scoliosis in children is very high,the education department and parents should pay more attention for prevention, scientific rearing methods can effectively reduce the incidence of scoliosis in children.