Spinal pain in pre-adolescence and the relation with screen time and physical activity behavior.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate how screen time and physical activity behavior were associated with spinal pain in pre-adolescence.

Methods

This study included 45,555 pre-adolescents who participated in the 11-year follow-up of the Danish National Birth Cohort. The 11-year follow-up included self-reported information on computer and TV behavior, aspects of physical activity, as well as frequency and intensity of spinal pain (neck-, mid back- and low back pain). Data were linked with parental socioeconomic data from Statistics Denmark registers. Associations were estimated using multinomial logistic regression models. To account for sample selection, we applied inverse probability weighting.

Results

Duration of screen time was stepwise associated with the degree of spinal pa

SUBMITTER: Joergensen AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8077847 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature