Sitting posture in a waiting-room environment
1Physical Therapy Graduate Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
Abstract:
Information on sitting posture in a leisure environment is lacking. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of various sitting postures by observing adults in straight-backed chairs in the waiting areas of several airport terminals. A total of 374 subjects (231 men, 143 women) were studied. The majority of the subjects used the backrest (87%). Men more frequently sat in the slouched position than did women. Most of the group (87%) used a crossed-leg position; women predominantly used the knee-over-knee crossed-leg position while the men slightly favoured the ankle-over-knee crossed-leg position. No preference for laterality was found with respect to the crossed-leg sitting postures.
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