Impact of mechanical neck pain on activities of daily living for computer users

Abstract

Introduction: In current era of information technology, computers are widely used by students. Prolonged use of computers during daily work activities and recreation is often cited as a cause of neck pain among university students. Objective: The aim of the study was to find the impact of neck pain and disability in computer users (students of Jahang irnagar University). To identify neck discomfort or pain in body and explore the socio demographic characteristic (age, sex, education, resting pain, working pain) of computer users with their problem, to examine and interpret how the study experience and duration of work & no previous history of accident affects the neck pain, identify and clarify the interruption of work & the diagnosis and their treatment options in person affected by neck pain. Method: 60 students (computer users) participated in the study voluntarily by filling the Neck disability index questionnaire and Visual analogue scale. Cross sectional study design was used in this study. 60 patients with neck pain were conveniently selected by four groups from Jahangirnagar University. Among them 15 patients were 1st year, 15 stu dents were 2nd year, 15 students were in 3rd year and rest of 15 students were in 4th year. There are 39 students their age group was (19-21) years and 21 students their age range was (22-24) years. There are 31 students are male and 29 students are female. Outcome measurement tools were using during data collection like Visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to measure pain and NDI to measure neck disability. Result: In this study found that, among the 60 participants 51.7% were male and 48.3% were female. Their age range was 19-21 years and 22-24 years. In this study taken from 1 st year, 2nd year, 3rd year and 4th year students. By using SPSS 20 version the study found that 48.3% students have no disability, 36.7% students have mild disability, 6.7 % have moderate disability, 5% students have severe disability and 3.3% students have complete disability. Also the study found that 4th year students were suffered most in neck pain for computer using. Conclusion: Incidence of neck pain is very high in students with prolonged computer usage. But the incidence of the disability caused by it is not very high. Keywords: Neck pain, Neck disability index (NDI), Computer users, Students