Impact of Static Lifestyle on Musculoskeletal Disorder among Adolescents during Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Background: Static lifestyles have an impact on decreased learning activities, boredom, stress, and cause musculoskeletal disorder. A static lifestyle also causes muscle fatigue, pain and discomfort in certain body parts. Purpose: to find out the relationship between a static lifestyle and musculoskeletal disorder in adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: The study used a cross-sectional design and recruited 238 students from the Faculty of Nursing, University of Jember following a random sampling technique. The researchers used the Adolescent Sedentary Activity Questionnaire with findings scored of <36 (not tired) and ≥36 (tired). The research analysis used the Spearman rank test with α = 0.05. Results: most of the respondents experienced a moderate static lifestyle (50.0%) in most of the respondents experienced high musculoskeletal disorder (50.8%). The results of the Spearman test p-value = 0.017 means that there is a significant relationship between a static lifestyle and musculoskeletal disorder. The correlation strength value is 0.154, which means it is weakly correlated and the direction of the correlation (+) indicates the higher the static lifestyle, the higher the musculoskeletal disorder experienced. Conclusions: This indicates that the higher the sedentary lifestyle behavior, the higher the level of musculoskeletal complaints felt or experienced by student. So it is necessary to do physical activities such as exercise, stretching, and rest for a while.