Postural Awareness in School Going Students and Teachers

Abstract

OBJECTIVES To determine the awareness level of good body posture in school going students and teachers of different academic places and compare the level of awareness between students and teachers. STUDY DESIGN A cross sectional study was conducted during January 2013 to April 2013. STUDY SETTINGS & PARTICIPANTS Research data was collected from different schools of Karachi. One hundred and thirty two participants including both school going students and teachers were participated in this study. The students belonged to 9-16 year age group. DATA COLLECTION TOOL Data was collected through close ended self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS Chi square test was applied to check the association between occupation and lecture attending question. Chi-square test results (p value = 0.000) showed that, there was a significant association between the occupation and attended lectures regarding postural awareness. Results also revealed that teachers and students were equally aware of standing and lying position, whereas for sitting position teachers were more aware than the students. CONCLUSION Study showed significant association of awareness between students and teachers. However, more education and further awareness regarding good body posture is needed to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) and to prevent prevalence of body pain due to poor posture.

Awareness of Correct Sitting Posture in Young Population-Age Group 14 to 17 Years

“…The source of information about the correct sitting posture was conveyed by parents (81.5%) and teachers (34.7%) to the participants; however internet (1.7%) and peer group (1%) were not significant sources of information. A previous study done by Yasmeen et al 15 found that 70% of teachers used a proper back support while sitting and 75% of teachers sat with equal distribution of weight on both sides in contrast to students whereas 47.3% sat with exerting body weight more on one side this indicates that teachers had good information about correct sitting habits than the students.…”