Correlational Study to Assess the Musculoskeletal Quandry with the Bag Carried by Children Studying at Selected School of Pune

Abstract

Introduction and objective: The prevalence rate of musculoskeletal pain among Indian school-going
children is 55% to 85% in between and the recommended weight is given to school children should be
less than 10% of the body weight but children carry bag weight on the body i.e. 15% of the body weight.
Hence the main objective of this study was to correlate the weight of the student with bag weight and
musculoskeletal quandry. Methodology: Quantitative approach with non-experimental correlational design
used in this study to assess the musculoskeletal quandry with the bag carried by children studying at selected
school of Pune”. Musculoskeletal pain was assessed with the help of standardized tool which was Modified
cornell musculoskeletal discomfort questionnaire, Wongs baker pain rating scale. 200 school children were
selected by using Non-probability convenient sampling technique. In this study the data was analysed using
Pearson coefficient correlation test, and Fishers’ exact test. Result: The following observation were made
from the study. The p-values for this test were large for these parameters, which is evident that though there
is a negative correlation of weight of students with Pain frequency (0.490), Discomfort (0.422), Interference
(0.432), and Pain (0.486), the correlation is not significant Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the
weight of school children and bag weight was 0.12 which is positive. Fisher’s exact test was applied to find
the association and the result shows that the p-value is less than 0.05 it indicates that there is a significant
association with the musculoskeletal quandry. Conclusion: Hence, the significance of this study indicates of
evidence for the null hypothesis and analysis and results show that there is a negative correlation between
the weight of the student with the bag weight.