Assessment of the Impact of the Educational Measure on the Willingness of Scoliosis-Striken Adolescents to Wear an Orthopaedic Brace

Abstract

The goal of this study is to determine whether an educational measure on adolescents stricken with scoliosis has any impact on their compliance with wearing the orthopaedic brace. Using a quasi- experimental design, this study measures through the compliancemeter the actual compliance behaviour of 40 adolescents wearing an orthopaedic brace before and after a teaching session. The results show a significant difference (p < 0.05) between the compliance reported by the adolescents and recorded by the compliancemeter for both groups before and after the teaching session.