comparison of students’ knowledge about spinal disorders preventive behaviors

Aim: back pain is one of the arising musculoskeletal disorders among the children population. the purpose of this study was to compare students’ knowledge about spinal disorders preventive behaviors”method and materials: this study was a school-based clinical trial among 104 fifth grade female students. the intervention group (n = 52) received six training sessions once a week and the control group (n=52) did not receive any intervention. data was collected using the self-reported questionnaire include demographic information and back care knowledge at baseline, immediately, 3- and 6-months follow-ups. data were analyzed using spss softwareversion 24. descriptive analysis, chi-square test, independent t-test. repeated measure analysis of variance and friedman test were applied to evaluate the results. significance level was set at p ≤ 0.05.findings: the results demonstrated that there was a significant interaction between ‘group’ and ‘test time’ factors (p < 0.001), with higher score for the intervention group (36.4%improvement for the knowledge test score). by contrast, the control group didn’t have  significant higher mean score of knowledge from the pre-test to follow-up assessments.conclusion: the effectiveness of intervention on back care related knowledge was demonstrated in this study. further evaluation is required to examine other determinants of promoting back-related behavior.