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Table 3 Yearly prevalence of neck pain in final year health professions students by profession

From: Higher low back and neck pain in final year Swiss health professions’ students: worrying susceptibilities identified in a multi-centre comparison to the national population

Profession

Crude prevalence (%)

95% HPDI

Adjusted prevalence (%)

95% HPDI

Occupational Therapy

75.3

69.7–80.5

75.6

69.8–81.0

Nutritional Sciences

76.2

69.2–83.1

76.4

68.6–83.4

Midwifery

83.4

78.7–87.6

82.3

76.1–88.1

Nursing

72.4

69.6–75.1

73.2

70.4–76.1

Physiotherapy

72.4

68.0–76.6

75.3

71.2–79.5

All

73.9

72.0–76.0

75.0

72.8–77.1

  1. Adjusted prevalences: adjusted for age and gender. 95% HPDI: 95% highest posterior density interval
  2. Source: Nat-ABBE coordination group, National Graduate Survey of Health Professionals from Universities of Applied Sciences 2016, 2017