Posture Training for Middle Schoolers

NCT ID: NCT06909747

Last Updated: 2025-11-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-11-15
• Study Completion Date: 2026-03-15

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate if posture training can improve back pain and posture in middle school students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Can posture training reduce back pain in middle school students?
• Can posture training improve body posture in middle school students?

Researchers will compare training and control groups to see if posture training reduces pain and improves body posture.

Participants will;

• Fill a survey assessing pain and body posture at three time points: before the training, immediately after, and at the 1st and 3rd months
• Attend three sessions of training on correct body posture and spinal health and its importance, and exercises to be done for spinal health

Detailed Description

This experimental study has been designed with a pre-test-post-test control group and repeated-measures. The data will be collected between October 15, 2025 and March 15, 2026. The study will be conducted in two Middle School in a region with a total students of 1170 in the 2024-2025 academic year. It is assumed that the population size will be similar, and a power analysis (0.80 power and 0.05 margin of error) has been conducted to estimate the sample size. As a result the target is to reach a total of 80 students, with 40 students in both the experimental and control groups, including a 20% attrition rate. The study will begin after the institutional permission, ethics committee approval, and written consent from the parents and verbal consent from the students. After the pre-test is completed, the students in the experimental group will be given training planned in a total of three sessions on correct body posture and spinal health and its importance, and exercises to be done for spinal health. The research data will be collected before and after the intervention, in the 1st and 3rd months. In the study, the data will be collected with the personal information form prepared by the researchers in line with the literature information and the Back Pain and Body Posture Assessment Tool, the validity and reliability of which has been studied in Turkish. In this study, the Statistical Package for Social Science for Windows (SPSS) package program will be used to analyse, examine and perform the analysis of the data.

In the data analysis, ordinal variables will be evaluated as arithmetic mean and standard deviation, minimum, maximum. As statistical analysis methods, Student's t test and one-way variance (One Way ANOVA), and Mann-Whitney U test will be used, and the significance level will be considered at p<0.05 level.

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Pain; Postural; Defect

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Training Group

The experimental group will be given training planned in a total of three sessions on correct body posture and spinal health and its importance, and exercises to be done for spinal health.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Posture Training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Training program consists of three sessions. It will cover proper body posture, the importance of spinal health, and targeted exercises to support spinal well-being.

Control Group

No intervention will be applied.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Posture Training

Training program consists of three sessions. It will cover proper body posture, the importance of spinal health, and targeted exercises to support spinal well-being.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Parental consent and voluntary participation
• No physical or mental disabilities
• Being a 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th-grade student
• Marking inappropriate posture (incorrect answer) in at least 4 out of 5 posture-related questions in the Back Pain and Posture Assessment tool
• Being present at school on the study days, with no excused absence or medical leave
• Full participation in the training program and completion of the follow-up process after the pre-test

Exclusion Criteria

• Lack of parental consent
• Voluntary withdrawal from the study
• Failure to complete all three training sessions
• Inability to attend school for any reason
• Presence of a chronic condition that may cause back pain or posture disorders

• Minimum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Amasya University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Aslı Yılmaz

Vice Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Aslı Yılmaz, Dr

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Vice Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences

Locations

Amasya Serdar Zeren Middle School

Amasya, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Amasya Yavuz Selim Middle School

Amasya, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

Kubra Okuyucu, Dr

Role: CONTACT

kubra.okuyucu@amasya.edu.tr

+90(358)2125005 ext. 4783

Facility Contacts

Aslı Yılmaz, Dr

Role: primary

asli.bellikli@amasya.edu.tr

+90(358)2125005 ext. 4738

Aslı Yılmaz, Dr

Role: primary

+90(358)2125005 ext. 4738

Other Identifiers

2025000051

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id