Spinal pain and co-occurrence with stress and general well-being among young adolescents: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort

Sandra Elkjær Stallknecht; Katrine Strandberg-Larsen; Lise Hestbæk; Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

doi:10.1007/s00431-017-2915-y

Spinal pain and co-occurrence with stress and general well-being among young adolescents: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort

Sandra Elkjær Stallknecht, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Lise Hestbæk, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

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Abstract

This study aims to describe the patterns in low back, mid back, and neck pain complaints in young adolescents from the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) and to investigate the co-occurrence of spinal pain and stress and general well-being, respectively. Cross-sectional data from the 11-year follow-up of DNBC were used. As part of a web-based survey, a total of 45,371 young adolescents between 10 and 14 years old completed the Young Spine Questionnaire, the Stress in Children Questionnaire, and a one-item question on general well-being. Associations between spinal pain and, respectively, stress and general well-being were estimated by means of multiple logistic regression models. Almost one fifth of boys and one quarter of girls reported spinal pain. Compared with adolescents who reported no stress, adolescents reporting medium and high values of stress had odds ratios (OR) of 2.19 (95% CI 2.08–2.30) and 4.73 (95% CI 4.28–5.23), respectively, of reporting spinal pain (adjusted for age, gender, and maternal education). Adolescents who reported poor general well-being had an OR of 2.50 (95% CI 2.31–2.72) for reporting spinal pain compared to adolescents with good general well-being. Conclusion: Spinal pain is a common complaint among young adolescents and co-occurs with stress and poor general well-being. The mutual dependency between the factors remained to be explained.What is Known:• The prevalence of spinal pain increases rapidly during childhood and adolescence, but different measurement instruments result in great variation in the estimates of spinal pain in children and adolescents.• Some studies have shown that different psychosocial measures are associated with spinal pain in children and adolescents.What is New:• Spinal pain, as measured by the newly developed and validated Young Spine Questionnaire, is a common complaint in young adolescents aged 10–14 years.• Spinal pain in young adolescents co-occurs with stress and poor general well-being.

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of Pediatrics
Volume	176
Issue number	6
Pages (from-to)	807–814
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0340-6199
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-017-2915-y
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2017

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Spinal pain and co-occurrence with stress and general well-being among young adolescents: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort. / Stallknecht, Sandra Elkjær; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Hestbæk, Lise et al.
In: European Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 176, No. 6, 01.06.2017, p. 807–814.

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