Volume 27, Issue 137, July 2023

The prevalence of myalgia and arthralgia and their associated risk factors among female Saudi medical and paramedical students in Al-Rayan Medical Colleges in Al-Madinah Al-Munawara

Khaled Shahat^1,2, Yaser Ahmad Alshabi³, Mahmood Abdulfttah Kurdi^4♦, Suhail Ahmed Alshabi⁴, Abdualrhman Olytha Alahmadi⁴, Eyad Esamalden Albashir⁴, Abdulhakim Mohammed Alhazmi⁵, Zayed Alnefaie⁶

¹Assistant professor of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Pediatric Department, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
²Dean, Al-Rayan National College of Medicine, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
³Orthopaedics, King Fahad Hospital, Madinah, SAU
⁴Medical Students, Al-Rayan National College of Medicine, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
⁵Lecturer, Assistance coordinator of toxicology and forensic medicine, Head of clinical training and Internship unit, Al-Rayan National College of Medicine, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
⁶Assistant professor, Department of anatomy, Embryology and genetics, Al-Rayan National College of Medicine, Madinah, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Medical Students, Al-Rayan National College of Medicine, Madinah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Acute or persistent pain that affects the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves is referred to as musculoskeletal pain. It is a widespread medical and socioeconomic issue worldwide. This study was planned to find the prevalence of MSP in female students from the health science department of Al-Rayyan College, Al-Madinah Munawara. It included students from human medicine, pharmacy, anaesthesia, and nursing majors. A survey questionnaire was distributed among participants. A total of 356 students took part in the study; statistical analysis of responses showed that 271 (76%) of students had complaints of MSP. The most prevalent pain was back pain (64.9%), then neck pain (64.6%), Shoulder pain (63.5%), leg pain (33.9%), wrist pain (26.6%) and elbow pain (12.2%). As per the marital status, 77% of students were unmarried and other 23% were either married or divorced, average married students have 3 kids. A positive and significant association had been found between marital status, the number of children, sleeping hours and muscular pain. Only 17% of the students reported having disabling pain per the Orebro pain questionnaire criteria. Further studies should be conducted to study other risk factors that can cause muscular pain in students.

Keywords: Musculoskeletal pain, MSP, Medical & para medical female students, Back pain

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e314ms3119

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i137/e314ms3119

Published: 27 July 2023