Abstract
Objective:The objective of study was to find the association of kyphotic posture with type of computer used (laptop/desktop) among employees of private Universities in Lahore Pakistan.Methodology: An analytical associational study was conducted. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the 195 subjects. Self-made questionnaire was used to collect the demographic details. The Occiput wall distance test was applied to find the presence and measure the severity of kyphosis. Chi-square test was applied to analyze the association between computers usage (laptop & desktop) and gender, age, number of hours and severity of kyphotic posture in categorical and continuous variables, respectively.Results: Results showed presence of kyphotic posture in 186 (95.38%) respondents and absent in just 9 (4.62%) respondents. Total number of desktop users were 80,in which 5% were normal, 33.75% had mild kyphosis, 48.75% had moderate kyphosis and 12.5% had severe kyphotic posture and in case of laptop (n=115) users 4.35% were normal, 47.82% had mild kyphosis, 42.61% had moderate kyphosis and 5.22% had severe kyphotic posture. There was statistically no significant association between type of computer and severity of kyphotic posture.(P= 0.127). Conclusion: Although, kyphotic posture was not found to be associated with the type of computer use but the high proportion of this faulty posture in university employees is a threat to their health. Ergonomic awareness regarding optimal working posture could reduce this alarming condition and ultimately improve the quality of life of these employees