Impact of Health Education Program on Body Mechanics for Primary School Children

Abstract

Children are the greatest investment of any community and the main basis for its development. Today, back pain in school children is becoming a new topic of growing health problem raising a red flag and an alarm about the dangers associated with improper body mechanics as regarding the musculoskeletal development of school age children.

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of health education program on body mechanics for primary school children through: ■ Assessing knowledge of school children about body mechanics. ■ Assessing body mechanics practice among pnmary school children. ■ Identifying environmental risk factors in schools. ■ Designing and implementing a health education program for primary school children as regarding body mechanics. ■ Evaluating the effect of health education program on body mechanics for primary school children.

Research Hypothesis Health education program improve the knowledge and practices of primary school children about body mechanics.

Research design:- A quasi experimental design was used in this study.