Proposition of a General Scoring System to the BackPEI
Proposition of a General Scoring System to the BackPEI is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''Journal of Head Neck & Spine Surgery''. The main subjects of the publication include scoring rule, computer science, and proposition. Questionnaires are important tools to assessment due its easy application, low charge and possibility of self-report of the assessed.The Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI) and the Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument for Adults (BackPEI-A) are questionnaires to assess the back-pain presence and associated risk factors.The BackPEI assess only school children while BackPEI-A assess only adults and has a score system which indicates the subject risk factors exposition level to back pain development.The aim is proposing a score system specific to BackPEI.The score system uses only those questions involving risk factors to back pain development, such as: physical exercise practice; time spent watching television and using computer; number of hours sleeping and habit of reading/studying on bed; occurrence of back pain among parents; postures adopted to sleep, to sit, to write, to use computer and to lift an object from the ground; school bag used to transport material and mode of transportation school bag; and parents' schooling.As higher as the score, lower is the risk factors exposition to back pain.From this communication, BackPEI has a general score system which expresses the level of risk factor exposition to back pain development among school children.