Correlates of heavy backpack use by elementary school children

Public Health

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 532-535

  Forjuoh, S N ^a   Schuchmann, J A ^a   Lane, B L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident prevention; Body weight; Elementary school; Injury; Muscular aches; School backpacks

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PARENTAL CONSENT; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BACK PAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFTING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; TEXAS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 4544349803     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2003.10.010     Document Type: Article

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