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Background: Since the use of smart phones has increased recently, their impact on people individual's health is not well established. It is important and critical to examine and discover the presence, absence or the magnitude of this impact, especially among young people, because the pediatrics in certain communities constitutes >25%
Aim of the work: determination of the prevalence of neck pain among children/adolescents and its relationship with time spent using electronic devices [e-devices]. Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Saudi Arabia using an online google survey form, which was distributed through social media to 2435 participants to find out the prevalence of neck pain among pediatric population and its relationship with e-devices use
Results: Our study showed that roughly a quarter of the participants in Saudi Arabia have pediatric population having neck pain, and mostpediatric sufferers are between 15-18 years. More time spent using e-devices was associated with increased complaints of neck pain, specifically, children at the age of 7-11 years spending 5-8 hours/day on e-devices. Around 70% had an aching pain that required them to ask for Doctor's
Conclusion: The research sample reported that children's use of electronic devices showed a close association with neck pain and the more the child spends time using an electronic device the greater is the complaint of neck pain. We found that there is a positive correlation between long time smart devices use and neck pain
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Background: the control of TB could achieve with a high level of knowledge regarding managing the risk factors and high risk groups
Objectives: assess the knowledge of community population toward tuberculosis [TB] in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [KSA]
Methods: a community based-cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among 675 adult Saudi populations at the several malls of Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia during the period from February to May 2017.All respondents filled out a validated questionnaire for assessing the subject's demographic and knowledge about tuberculosis
Results: the general knowledge about TB was high among 88.7% of subjects and the source of knowledge was health professionals in 35.1% followed by TV in 32.9% and internet among 32%. A poor knowledge was found among 55.9% and good knowledge was shown among 44.1% of respondents. The good knowledge was significantly associated with young age and working at medical jobs
Conclusion: most of participants had misconceptions about tuberculosis. Also, the control programs for TB in KSA need more understanding for enhancement of TB control and improve medical awareness among population in KSA as well as increasing protection measures against the infection with TB