The objective of this research is to analyze the actual state of juvenile posture formation and defects resulting from the environmental differences between urban and rural areas, and further to suggest the concrete data for the practical posture guid...
The objective of this research is to analyze the actual state of juvenile posture formation and defects resulting from the environmental differences between urban and rural areas, and further to suggest the concrete data for the practical posture guidance.
Boy and girl students from K junior and D girls' junior high schools of Taegu City and H junior high school of Kyungpook Province are selected as purposive samples. Thus 291 boys and 321 girls from urban and 260 boys and 270 girls from rural areas are sampled to be a total of 1142 boys and girls.
As the methods of test, New York State posture Test(NYSPT), bowleg(0-type leg) and knock-knee(x-type leg) tests are used with the aid of photograph. Their results are as follows.
1. The final scores and percentages of NYSPT evaluation of boy students in urban and rural areas are 57.2(58%) and 58.0(60%), respectively, and their achievement scores are 6.3 and 6.8 within normal state. The comparison between urban and scores shows that rural students are in more correct posture with 1% level of significance than urban students. This is statistically meaningful(p<0.01).
2. The final scores and percentages of HYSPT evaluation of girl students i% urban and areas are 59.0(69%) and 60.0(69.3%), respectively, and their achievement scores are 7.0 and 7.2 within normal state. The comparison between urban and rural scores shows statistically meaningless with 5% level of significance(p<0.05).
3. The NYSPT evaluation scores of posture formation between boys and girls in both urban and rural areas shows that girls are in more correct posture than boys with average differences of 3.05 and 2.05, respectively.
4. The NYSPT evaluation according to bodily parts are as follows : In the lateral head deviation, average angles of urban and rural boys are 7.39° and 6.02°, whereas average angles of girls are 6.52° and 6.98°, respectively. All of these are inclined a little to the abnormal ragne.
In the low shoulder, average angles of urban and rural boys are 1.44° and 1.33°, and also 1.46° and 1.33° to girls, respectively. All of these are within the normal range.
In the scoliosis, the percentage of urban students are higher than the one of rural students. The students in the severe scoliosis are 0.73%%, 8 out of 1142 students.
5. In the average scores about the types of legs, distribution percentages and indices of bowlegs are 27.2%, 3.85 in the urban and 43.2%, 3.75 in the rural boys, respectively. In the girls, they are 20.6%, 3.89 and 29.6%, 3.90, respectively. This shows bowleg is more dominant to the rural students.
Distribution percentages and indices of knock-knees are 15.5%, 4.57 and 12.7%, 3.95, respectively, in the urban and rural boys. In the girls, they are 7.17%, 4.0 and 0%, 0 respectively. This shows knock-knee is more dominant to the urban students.