Prevalence of Low Back Pain among Undergraduate Physiotherapy Students in Nigeria
Table 2
Associations between prevalence of LBP and exposure to specific educational activities.
Activity
Low back pain prevalence
7-day prevalence (%)
1-month prevalence (%)
Sitting (lectures)
50 hours
11.2
16.9
50 hours
14.8
25.9
0.29
1.30
value
0.59
0.25
Sitting (personal study)
50 hours
11.5
18.8
50 hours
18.2
1.9
0.44
0.66
value
0.51
0.42
Practicing techniques on others
10 hours
6.1
19.5
10 hours
13.4
15.2
4.20
0.80
value
0.12
0.67
Others practicing techniques on self
10 hours
11.9
20.2
10 hours
10.3
5.9
0.15
11.10
value
0.93
0.004##
Treating patients
30 hours
6.3
19.8
30 hours
20.3
16.5
9.21
0.71
value
0.01#
0.70
Exposure to educational activities in the previous month. Not all the respondents indicated exposure to these activities; for those that did we have the following: a = 149 respondents; b = 141 respondents; c = 190 respondents. #Statistically significant at ; ##statistically significant at .
