Prevalence of patellofemoral pain among medical students in Egypt

Autor:	Enas Fawzy Youssef, Karima Abdelaty Hassan, Mahmoud Elsayed Shanab, Mohamed Yasser Habash, Sama Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal, Mohammed Moustafa Aldosouki Hegazy
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	General Nursing Education
Zdroj:	International journal of health sciences.
ISSN:	2550-696X 2550-6978
Popis:	Background: There is a wide variation of the prevalence of patellofemoral pain (PFP), there is limited studies concerning the prevalence of PFPS in Arabic population and specifically medical students in the universities. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of PFP in the medical students of Cairo University (aged 18–25 years) using a self-report online questionnaire. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in Cairo city on 532 medical students of age 18-25 years. Data was collected through online questionnaire. Results: Overall prevalence rate of PFP was 28.76%. PFP was higher in females than males (23.5% and 5.3%, respectively), it was insignificantly associated with BMI, time of sitting with bending knee (P>0.05), while significantly associated with time of standing (P
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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