Prevalência de cefaleia relacionada com alguns hábitos de vida em escolares do ensino fundamental e médio de Ribeirão Preto (SP) / Prevalence of headache associated with some lifestyle habits in schoolchildren of Ribeirão Preto

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

24/10/2011

RESUMO

The headaches afflict a large part of world population. This symptom affects quality of life and productivity of those who have. Children and adolescents with headache are also subject to these losses. Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of headache in a representative sample of students in public elementary and high schools. To verify the relationship between: 1) headache and physical variables (gender, skin color reported, body mass index-BMI and chronic diseases such), 2) headache and some lifestyle habits (alcohol intake, regular physical activity, hours night of sleep daily, weekly hours spent on TV, internet and videogames), 3) headache and use of appliances such as orthodontic and glasses, and 4) headache and academic performance evaluated by means of these notes. Methods: We randomly selected one school for the city region (north, south, east, west and center), then randomly selected one room of each series / year. A questionnaire was applied to 415 students who agreed to participate in the study whose parents or guardians signed a free and informed consent. Tests were used for statistical analysis: 1) Fischer\ s exact test with the command PROC FREQ of SAS ® 9 Software, 2) ANOVA with the command PROC GLM of SAS ® 9 Software, 3) Logistic regression for odds ratio by PROC command LOGIST Software SAS ® 9. For all patients were admitted 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Results and Conclusions: The prevalence of headache in this population is 72.8% and in girls is 79% and 62.5% in boys. We observed a positive correlation between: 1) gender and headache, since girls had an estimated risk 2.3 times higher than boys, 2) alcohol and headache, as those who drink alcohol have 2.1 times more likely have headache, and 3) use of orthodontic appliance and headache (p =0.02). There was no significant correlation between headache and other variables selected for this study (skin color reported, chronic disease, BMI, use of glasses, regular physical activity, sleeping hours, weekly hours spent on TV, internet and videogames and school performance)

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cefaleia escolares hábitos de vida headache lifestyles habits prevalence prevalência schoolchildren

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