Table 5.
Comparison of period prevalence rates on adolescent low back pain from different studies
| PERIOD PREVALENCE (%) | |||||||
| STUDY POINT |
YEAR | COUNTRY | N | LIFE TIME | 12-MONTH | 1-MONTH | |
| Our study | 2013 | Nigeria | 571 | 58.0 | 43.8 | 25.6 | 14.7 |
| Ayanniyi et al | 2011 | Nigeria | 1863 | 25.0% | - | - | - |
| Onofrio et al | 2012 | Brazil | 1233 | - | - | - | 13.7 |
| Sato et al | 2008 | Japan | 43,630 | 28.8 | - | - | 10.2 |
| Bejia et al | 2005 | Tunisia | 622 | 28.4 | - | - | 13.0 |
| Prista et al | 2004 | Mozambique | 204 | 28.0 | 13.5 | 12.0 | - |
| Louw et al | 2007 | ||||||
| (systematic review) | 36.0 | 33.0 | - | 12.0 | |||
| Calvo-Munoz et al | 2013 | ||||||
| (systematic review) | 39.9 | 33.6 | 18.3 | 12.0 | |||