Quality of life, school backpack weight, and nonspecific low back pain in children and adolescents》.pdf

J Pediatr (Rio J). 2015;91(3):263269 .br ARTIGO ORIGINAL Quality of life, school backpack weight, and nonspecific low back pain in children and adolescents Rosangela B. Macedo a , Manuel J. Coelho-e-Silva a , Nuno F. Sousa b , João Valente-dos-Santos a,c , Aristides M. Machado-Rodrigues a , Sean d e f a,∗ P. Cumming , Alessandra V. Lima , Rui S. Gonc¸alves , Raul A. Martins a Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal b Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil c Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa, Portugal d University of Bath, Bath, Inglaterra e Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, AC, Brasil f Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Recebido em 7 de fevereiro de 2014; aceito em 6 de agosto de 2014 KEYWORDS Abstract Quality of life; Objectives: To describe the degree of disability, anthropometric variables, quality of life (QoL), Nonspecific low back and school backpack weight in boys and girls aged 11-17 years. The differences in QoL between pain; those who did or did not report low back pain (LBP) were also analyzed. Children and Methods: Eighty-six girls (13.9 ± 1.9 years of age) and 63 boys (13.7 ± 1.7 years of age) par- adolescents; ticipated. LBP was assessed by questionnaire, and disability using the Roland-Morris Disability School backpack Questionnaire. QoL was assessed by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL). Multivariate analyses of variance and covariance were used to assess differences between groups.