Status and influencing factors of neck-shoulder pain among Beijing military college teachers

Abstract

Objective To investigate the situation and influencing factors of neck-shoulder pain of Beijing military university teachers,so as to provide reference for making preventive measures.Methods A total of 190 teachers from a military university in Beijing were chosen by convenience sampling.Nordic,Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) and self-designed questionnaire were used to investigate and analyze teachers' sleeping quality,neck-shoulder pain and influencing factors.Results Totals of 189 questionnaires were recovered,with the rate of 99.47％.All of 62.43％ teachers had neck-shoulder pain.Female' s occurrence rate of neck-shoulder pain was higher than male.Occurrence rate of those who had history of neck-shoulder disease was higher than that of those who had not.Teachers who used adjusted chair had smaller chance of neck-shoulder pain than those who didn' t.Teachers who had excessive exercise had higher rate of neck-shoulder pain than those who did not.Teachers who did exercise such as swimming or playing basketball had lower rate than those who did not.The differences were statistically significant (x2 =4.38,53.46,7.31,6.14,9.22,7.39,respectively ; P ＜ 0.05).The score of sleep disorder,sleeping time,daily work disorder and sleeping quality in PSQI were respectively (1.03 ± 0.57),(1.04 ± 0.83),(1.58 ± 0.96),(1.08 ± 0.74) for teachers who had neck-shoulder pain,and (0.72 ± 0.59),(0.66 ± 0.65),(1.11 ± 1.01),(0.75 ± 0.81) for teachers who had not.The differences were statistically significant (t =-3.60,-3.29,-3.12,-2.96,respectively; P ＜ 0.01).The influencing factors of teachers' neck-shoulder pain included neck-shoulder disease history,excessive exercise and sleeping time (x2 =36.61,5.99,5.96,respectively; P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Neck-shoulder pain is a common disease among military university teachers in Beijing,and appropriate exercise as well as improving sleeping quality is helpful for preventing it. Key words: Beijing; Data collection; Military college teacher; Neck-shoulder pain; Influencing factor