Screening and Prevalence of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in Selected Urban and Countryside Schools in Egypt

Scoliosis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Screening and Prevalence of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in Selected Urban and Countryside Schools in Egypt

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03894865
• Other study ID #: scoliosis in Egypt
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: July 2019
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Early detection of scoliosis and determination of which areas are more affected urban or countryside will help in early management. Also, this will guide the government and the community for early intervention to decrease the factors that leads to this postural abnormality. This also will guide another clinician to search for the cause of these posture deformities and to concentrate screening for special areas with special cultures.

Description:

Scoliosis may have an impact on the Egyptian society as children between 10-15 years old represent 9.5 % of the population which is the third large category appendix (3). So without the early detection of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis for that age group, bad impacts will be implemented for Egyptian society by causing disabilities and psychological problems for these children.

The early detection of scoliosis is of a great importance as curve detection before skeletal maturation gives a good opportunity for early treatment or prevention of curve progression. Scoliosis has a bad effect on cosmetic appearance, quality of life, Psychological well-being, disability, back Pain, breathing function. It may also progress in adulthood and need further treatment. So a multidimensional and comprehensive evaluation of scoliosis patients is necessary to design a complete therapeutic approach.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 840
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: July 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 10 Years to 15 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

1. Age range from 10 to 15 years.

2. Males students.

3. Students who have structural scoliosis.

Exclusion criteria:

1. Congenital deformities.

2. Recent fracture and there is a fixation in the upper or the lower extremities

3. Neuromuscular disorder (Cerebral palsy and spinal muscle atrophy).

4. Syndromic disorders (Muscular dystrophy, Osteogenesis imperfect, and Spina-bifida).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Scoliosis

Intervention

Other:
• procedure1
The students will be asked to bend forward with his knees straight, feet together and hands freely and loosely hanged. if there was scoliosis the rib cage rotated and a hump appeared. Positive test indicated the presence of a rib hump and negative if there was any hump appeared
• procedure2
Measurement of the angle of trunk rotation (ATR) by using a scoliometer HD smartphone application.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Faculty of Physical therapy, Cairo University	Cairo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Positive Adam's forward bending test	Proportion of patients with a positive Adam's forward bending test	10 minutes
Primary	degree of trunk rotation	scoliometer HD reading >7 degrees (=>20 degrees Cobb angle) Proportion of patients with more than 7 degree	15 minutes
Secondary	screening	percentage of childerns with idiopathic scoliosis	15 minutes