[School screening for scoliosis in Sivas, Turkey].

Objectives: We investigated the prevalence of scoliosis among primary school students in Sivas, Turkey.

Methods: To determine the prevalence of scoliosis among primary school students in the age bracket of 10 to 15 years, 11 primary schools were selected with systematic sampling. A total of 3,175 students (1,538 girls, 1,637 boys) of grades 6 to 8 were selected from 16,103 students using a stratified sampling method.