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Background: Neck - shoulder pain is relatively common among medical students and has negative impacts on their physical health and quality of life. This study aims to assess the prevalence and traditional medicine characteristics of neck - shoulder pain among medical students in University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University.
Methods: A Cross - sectional study was conducted on 458 medical students in University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University. The questionnaire involving traditional medicine characteristics of neck - shoulder pain and general condition was designed. Data obtained from the survey were analyzed with descriptive statistics and factor analysis.
Results: The percentage of neck - shoulder pain among medical students was 20,01%. The quality of lifeusing EQ-5D-5L index score was 0,8298 ± 0,1064 and VAS scale was 4,16 ± 1,303. According to traditional medicine characteristics, most of students had pain and stiffness along the Small intestine meridian (44.6%), the Bladder meridian (40.2%). Pain in The San Jiao Meridian of the Hand Shaoyang was associated with side sleeping position (OR = 0.617; 95% CI = 0.479-0.795). Two patterns with a high percentage were wind - cold syndrome (53.3%) and wind - cold - dampnesssyndrome (42.4%).
Conclusions: Neck - shoulder pain is common among undergraduate medical students, most of them have mild and moderate pain, there was no remarkably impact on quality of life. According to traditional medicine, the common patternswere wind - cold and wind - cold - dampnesssyndrome; students mainly had pain in Small intestine meridianand the Bladder meridian.
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| Published | 20-01-2023 | |
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| Issue | No. 84 (2023) | |
| Section | Original article | |
| DOI | 10.38103/jcmhch.84.10 | |
| Keywords | Đau vai gáy, sinh viên y khoa, Y học cổ truyền, hạng kiên thống Medical student, neck - shoulder pain, Traditional medicine |
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