Skip to main content

Table 2 Validity findings (Pearson r values)

From: Photographic measurement of upper-body sitting posture of high school students: A reliability and validity study

Validity

Sagittal head angle

Cervical angle

Protraction/retraction angle

Thoracic angle

Arm angle

All angles measures from validity photos and LODOX

0.84

0.89

0.89

0.92

0.79

Upright (n = 13)

0.73

0.89

0.88

0.81

0.76

Normal(n = 13)

0.97

0.85

0.48

0.93

0.86

Slouched (n = 13)

0.84

0.79

0.90

0.93

0.66

Female (n = 20)

0.67

0.90

0.73

0.95

0.75

Male (n = 19)

0.92

0.89

0.87

0.86

0.87