J Korean Acad Fam Med.  1997 Feb;18(2):212-220.

The Relationship between Musculoskeletal Symptoms and Type A Behavior Patterns in Housewife

• Choi HJ
• Choi HR
• Lee CR
• You CD

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The psychosocial factors to the musculoskeletal disease has been studied recently as well as environmental factors. Type A behavior pattern which is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease may have relation to musculoskeletal disease, and the authors studied the relations for these variables.
METHODS
The studied subjects were 511 housewives sampled without intention at Taejon city and we excluded 76 persons who had experiences of trauma at neck, shoulder or back region during recent one year on the data analysis. The musculoskeletal symptoms and type A behavior pattern were quantified as the score and the Spearmans correlation coefficient was used to reveal the statistical significance for the relations.
RESULTS
Type A behavior pattern had the relation to the symptoms of neck, sboulder, and back region. For the sociodemographic variables, the relations were significant for the group of younger age, lower socioeconomic level, and the group having full time job, lower body mass index.
CONCLUSIONS
We concluded that type A behavior pattern was the possible risk factor for musculoskeletal disease, but more studies will be necessary to confirm the influence of behavior pattern to musculoskeletal disease.

MeSH Terms

Body Mass Index
Coronary Disease
Daejeon
Humans
Intention
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Neck
Psychology
Risk Factors
Shoulder
Statistics as Topic