Republic Of Sierra Leone Freetown Arthralgia Etiology Related To Survey Research

Purpose: It is to study the etiological factors causing the arthromyodynia in the city of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.Method:The people living or working on Aberdeen road were questioned according to the same questionnaire. 993 local people answered the questions. The data of the factors, including the age, the sex, the body weight, the education, the salary, the sleeping, the smoking, the over-load, the rest-and-food while sick, the dairy, the environment, and the bad season, was arranged and analyzed with the chi-square test and the ANOVA, compared with each other between the groups to find the etiological factors.Results:1. In the arthromyodynia group, the age was older than the normal group and the other-disease group, and the older the arthromyodynia rate was higher, the more painful they suffered. There were no significant difference between the normal group and the arthromydynia on the factors of the sex.2. The moisture happened to the people of the arthromyodynia group more often than the other groups.3. The salary and the education were much lower than the normal group, but the two factors did not make sense between the arthromydynia group and the other-disease group.4. The rate of shortage of the rest-and-food while sick were much higher than the normal group, but it did not make sense between the arthromydynia group and the other-disease group, according to the people aged as 30 years to 39 years old. But rate for the people between the age of 40 and 59, was quite different with the other two groups. The people wounded in the arthromyodynia group were more than the other groups. The people who show up the symptom of the stagnated blood without the wound wore more than the other group too.5. There were no significant difference between the normal group and the arthromydynia on the factors of the over-load. The patients of the arthromydynia slept less than the people of the other two groups. The smoking volume of the normal group is larger than the arthromydynia group and the other-disease group. There was no significant difference between the arthromydynia group and the other-disease group on the rate of the smoker with the stagnant blood. The rate of the starvation was higher than the other groups, and the rate of binge and overeating was lower than the other groups.6. The age of the people suffering the syndrome of the deficiency of both the liver and kidney was much older than the normal group and the other subgroups of the arthromyodynia group. There were more drinkers within the subgroup of the wind-damp-heat syndrome than within the other subgroups of the arthromyodynia groups and the normal group.Conclusion:7. The age, the wound, the food shortage, and the moisture environment were the etiological factors of the arthromydynia there. For the people between the age of 40 and 59, the rate of shortage of the rest-and-food while sick was the etiological factor too.8. The sex, the over-load, the smoking were not the etiological factors of the arthromydynia there.9. The less salary, the lower education, and the rest-and-food while sick were not only the reason of the arthromydynia but also the other diseases.10. The older age influenced much more the people suffering the syndrome of the deficiency of the both the liver and kidney. The drinking was one of the etiological factors for the subgroup of the wind-damp-heat syndrome.