Back Pain Clinical Trial
Official title:
Back Pain in Preclinical and Clinical Medical Students at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence of back pain in preclinical second year and clinical fourth/fifth year medical students at the University of the West Indies; to assess their knowledge, attitude and practice of good spine health; and to determine the outcome of a standardize spine exercise program on one group, the clinical second year medical students, using a prospective randomized control design.
There is a surfeit of literature on musculoskeletal pain especially that of back pain, which
are commonly associated with lifestyle practices including varied occupations that affect
individuals of all ages.
Medical students in the clinical years of training are more likely to be involved in
strenuous activities such as prolonged standing for ward rounds, bending forward to examine
patients and sometimes being engaged in manual handling of patients, as compared to medical
students in the preclinical years. During the early period of preclinical training, medical
students primarily sit for extended periods in lectures, use computers or tablets, or in the
library, studying and completing assignments. These practices can all be attributable to the
increased risk of developing low back among other musculoskeletal problems; especially in
instances where the strength and stability of the spine is not maintained and safe spine
precautions are not done.
There is no published study in Jamaica or to the researcher's knowledge in the Caribbean
which looks at the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain, specifically low back pain in medical
students. This study is to determine the prevalence of low back pain in second and
fourth/fifth year medical students at the University of the West Indies (UWI); assess their
knowledge, attitude and practice toward good spine health in preventing back and neck pain;
and using a prospective randomized control study model, evaluate the outcome of a
standardized spine exercise program on back pain in the preclinical second year medical
students over an eight (8) week period from September 7, 2015 to November 2, 2015.
Both groups will be followed up over the stipulated period. The identity of all participants
will be protected and will only be identified by an assigned study number. Basic
demographics, presenting complaints and outcome information will be obtained for the purposes
of the study. Questionnaires will be carefully constructed from the objectives of the study
to determine the presence of back and neck pain in the medical students and their knowledge,
attitude and practice towards the musculoskeletal problem of the back.
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