Screening and Prevalence of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in Selected Urban and Countryside Schools in Egypt

NCT03894865 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: scoliosis in Egypt
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 840
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Early detection of scoliosis and determination of which areas are more affected urban or countryside will help in early management. Also, this will guide the government and the community for early intervention to decrease the factors that leads to this postural abnormality. This also will guide another clinician to search for the cause of these posture deformities and to concentrate screening for special areas with special cultures.

Conditions

Scoliosis

Keywords

scoliosis, prevalence; screening, Egypt

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Positive Adam's forward bending test

  Proportion of patients with a positive Adam's forward bending test

  10 minutes

• degree of trunk rotation

  scoliometer HD reading \>7 degrees (=\>20 degrees Cobb angle) Proportion of patients with more than 7 degree

  15 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• screening

  15 minutes

Study Arms (2)

urban school

EXPERIMENTAL

Male students from selected urban schools undergo screening for idiopathic scoliosis

Other: procedure1; Other: procedure2

countryside schools

EXPERIMENTAL

Male students from selected countryside schools undergo screening for idiopathic scoliosis

Other: procedure1; Other: procedure2

Interventions

procedure1 OTHER

The students will be asked to bend forward with his knees straight, feet together and hands freely and loosely hanged. if there was scoliosis the rib cage rotated and a hump appeared. Positive test indicated the presence of a rib hump and negative if there was any hump appeared

Also known as: Adam's forward bend test

countryside schools; urban school

procedure2 OTHER

Measurement of the angle of trunk rotation (ATR) by using a scoliometer HD smartphone application.

Also known as: Angle of trunk rotation

countryside schools; urban school

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 10 Years - 15 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Age range from 10 to 15 years.
• Males students.
• Students who have structural scoliosis.

You may not qualify if:

• Congenital deformities.
• Recent fracture and there is a fixation in the upper or the lower extremities
• Neuromuscular disorder (Cerebral palsy and spinal muscle atrophy).
• Syndromic disorders (Muscular dystrophy, Osteogenesis imperfect, and Spina-bifida).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cairo University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Physical therapy, Cairo University

Cairo, egypt, Egypt

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Scoliosis

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Spinal Curvatures; Spinal Diseases; Bone Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases

Study Officials

• karima A Hassan, PhD

  Cairo University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: principal investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 27, 2019
• First Posted: March 29, 2019
• Study Start: April 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2019
• Study Completion: July 1, 2019
• Last Updated: July 30, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

EG (1)