Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics and daily personal habits of pre-adolescents enrolled in the first-grade secondary schools of the Palermo district of the study sample and association in the univariate analysis to suspected adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (n = 428).
| Variables | Yes n = 66, n (%) |
No n = 362, n (%) |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age in years (mean) | - Mean ± SD | 11.74 ± 0.83 | 11.77 ± 0.85 | 0.84 |
| Gender | - Male | 32 (14) | 196 (86) | 0.23 |
| - Female | 34 (17) | 166 (83) | ||
| Height | - ≤140 cm | 10 (13.5) | 64 (86.5) | 0.3 |
| - >140 cm | 56 (15.8) | 298 (84.2) | ||
| Weight | - ≤40 kg | 23 (13.7) | 145 (86.3) | 0.25 |
| - >40 kg | 43 (16.5) | 217 (83.5) | ||
| BMI (kg/m2) | - Underweight | 24 (12.9) | 162 (87.1) | 0.17 |
| - Healthy weight | 38 (16.6) | 191 (83.4) | ||
| - Overweight/Obese | 4 (30.8) | 9 (69.2) | ||
| Physical activity | - Yes | 43 (17) | 209 (83) | 0.16 |
| - No | 23 (13) | 153 (87) | ||
| If yes, it is a high risk sport (dance or artistic gymnastics)? |
- Yes | 11 (28) | 28 (72) | 0.04 |
| - No | 32 (15) | 181 (85) | ||
| Weekly duration of physical activity | - ≤3 h | 41 (18.9) | 176 (81.1) | 0.03 |
| - >3 h | 2 (5.7) | 33 (94.3) | ||
| Use of backpack | - Yes | 64 (16) | 337 (84) | 0.18 |
| - No (use bag with wheels) | 2 (7.4) | 25 (92.6) | ||
| Daily meters traveled with a backpack | - <300 mt | 52 (15.2) | 292 (84.8) | 0.41 |
| - >300 mt | 14 (16.7) | 70 (83.3) | ||
| Daily time spent sitting | - <8 h | 47 (15) | 266 (85) | 0.40 |
| - >8 h | 19 (16.5) | 96 (83.5) |