Prevalence of non-traumatic foot pain among working women and its contributing factors in Hyderabad

Abstract

Background: In women, pain of the foot is a common problem, various studies has proved that the common cause of the foot pain is the ill-fitting of the footwear. This study was conducted to find out the prevalence of non-traumatic foot pain among working women and its contributing factors in Hyderabad.Method: The survey was conducted on working women recruited using convenient sampling. Data on foot problem was collected by distributing questionnaire among the participants. Finding: A total of 250 working women were selected, out of which 234 responded for the study. From these 234 working women mostly were doctors (116), teachers (103), Bankers (7) and other (8). 108 (46.2%) had pain whereas 126 (53.8%) had not experienced foot pain. Those who experienced foot pain 59 (25.2%) participants described “footwear” as the cause. And the common location of the pain was “heel” according to 68 (29.1%) participants. Majority of the participants reported that the pain lasted for