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Screening and Prevalence of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in Selected Urban and Countryside Schools in Egypt

NCT03894865 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 840

Last updated 2019-07-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Early detection of scoliosis and determination of which areas are more affected urban or countryside will help in early management. Also, this will guide the government and the community for early intervention to decrease the factors that leads to this postural abnormality. This also will guide another clinician to search for the cause of these posture deformities and to concentrate screening for special areas with special cultures.

Conditions

  • Scoliosis

Interventions

OTHER

procedure1

The students will be asked to bend forward with his knees straight, feet together and hands freely and loosely hanged. if there was scoliosis the rib cage rotated and a hump appeared. Positive test indicated the presence of a rib hump and negative if there was any hump appeared

OTHER

procedure2

Measurement of the angle of trunk rotation (ATR) by using a scoliometer HD smartphone application.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • karima A Hassan, PhD · Cairo University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-01
Primary Completion
2019-07-01
Completion
2019-07-01

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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