Revista de Ergonomia
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Ergonomically Designed Seating Arrangement of Pupils in School

Zeya Sew

A school is a place where students go to be taught and socialized in order to meet the needs of the world. They will have to stay at their institutions for a long time in order to achieve these goals (on an average of 4 to 6 hours for each day). While at school, children spend the majority of their time doing various activities such as reading, writing, drawing, and other similar activities, which causes them to sit in their seats for lengthy periods of time. For school children, sitting for lengthy periods of time produce Low Back Pain (LBP) and upper back pain. In a questionnaire poll, 53% of school children said their LBP was caused by "sitting at school." The prevalence of LBP was also higher in females than in boys, according to the report.