Damasceno Gerson Moreira, Ferreira Arthur Sá, Nogueira Leandro Alberto Calazans, Reis Felipe José Jandre, Andrade Igor Caio Santana, Meziat-Filho Ney
Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Centro Universitário Augusto Motta - UNISUAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Eur Spine J. 2018 Jun;27(6):1249-1254. doi: 10.1007/s00586-017-5444-5. Epub 2018 Jan 6.
The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is an association between text neck and neck pain in young adults.
Observational cross-sectional study with 150 18-21-year-old young adults from a public high school in the state of Rio de Janeiro was performed. In the self-report questionnaire, the participants answered questions on sociodemographic factors, anthropometric factors, time spent texting or playing on a mobile phone, visual impairments, and concern with the body posture. The neck posture was assessed by participants' self-perception and physiotherapists' judgment during a mobile phone texting message task. The Young Spine Questionnaire was used to evaluate the neck pain. Four multivariate logistic regression models were fitted to investigate the association between neck posture during mobile phone texting and neck pain, considering potential confounding factors.
There is no association between neck posture, assessed by self-perception, and neck pain (OR = 1.66, p = 0.29), nor between neck posture, assessed by physiotherapists' judgment, and neck pain (OR = 1.23, p = 0.61). There was also no association between neck posture, assessed by self-perception, and frequency of neck pain (OR = 2.19, p = 0.09), nor between neck posture, assessed by physiotherapists' judgment, and frequency of neck pain (OR = 1.17, p = 0.68).
This study did not show an association between text neck and neck pain in 18-21-year-old young adults. The findings challenge the belief that neck posture during mobile phone texting is associated to the growing prevalence of neck pain.
本研究旨在调查年轻成年人中“短信脖”与颈部疼痛之间是否存在关联。
对来自里约热内卢州一所公立高中的150名18至21岁的年轻成年人进行了观察性横断面研究。在自我报告问卷中，参与者回答了有关社会人口学因素、人体测量因素、发短信或玩手机的时间、视力障碍以及对身体姿势的关注等问题。在手机短信任务期间，通过参与者的自我感知和物理治疗师的判断来评估颈部姿势。使用青少年脊柱问卷来评估颈部疼痛。考虑潜在的混杂因素，拟合了四个多变量逻辑回归模型，以研究手机短信时颈部姿势与颈部疼痛之间的关联。
通过自我感知评估的颈部姿势与颈部疼痛之间无关联（比值比=1.66，p=0.29），通过物理治疗师的判断评估的颈部姿势与颈部疼痛之间也无关联（比值比=1.23，p=0.61）。通过自我感知评估的颈部姿势与颈部疼痛频率之间也无关联（比值比=2.19，p=0.09），通过物理治疗师的判断评估的颈部姿势与颈部疼痛频率之间也无关联（比值比=1.17，p=0.68）。
本研究未显示18至21岁年轻成年人中“短信脖”与颈部疼痛之间存在关联。这些发现挑战了手机短信时颈部姿势与颈部疼痛患病率上升有关的观点。
