Musculoskeletal symptoms and computer use among Finnish adolescents - Pain intensity and inconvenience to everyday life: A cross-sectional study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hakala, Paula T ^a,b   Saarni, Lea A ^c   Punamäki, Raija Leena ^a,d   Wallenius, Marjut A ^a   Nygård, Clas Håkan ^a   Rimpelä, Arja H ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FINGER PAIN; FINLAND; HAND PAIN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NECK PAIN; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOULDER PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WRIST PAIN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER TERMINAL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPUTER TERMINALS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FINLAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84858730317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-13-41     Document Type: Article

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