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Methods: Seventeen AIS patients treated with a rigid brace were recruited. We asked them to complete a questionnaire and participate in an interview study. Finally, we measure the interface corrective force and perceived discomfort with the participants for different positions and assess the correlation. Results: Our survey reveals that participants scored the lowest in the domains of environmental factors, psycho-spiritual factors, satisfaction, and self-image. Appearance anxiety, physical and psychological discomfort and inconvenience were the three most frequently mentioned problems in the interviews on participants\u2019 daily bracing experiences. A significant, moderately positive relationship between corrective force and discomfort level was found only when participants were lying on their left side, but not in any of the other positions. No significant correlation between treatment length and perceived discomfort was found. Conclusions: Future work should focus on reducing the psychological burden and the inconvenience of wearing a brace, rather than on reducing physical discomfort resulting from the corrective force.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/children9050635","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,28]],"date-time":"2022-04-28T12:06:01Z","timestamp":1651147561000},"page":"635","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Exploration of Contributory Factors to an Unpleasant Bracing Experience of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients a Quantitative and Qualitative Research"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4267-421X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huan","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AP Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xianglong","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing 100020, China"},{"name":"Academic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Tetteroo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AP Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Frank","family":"Delbressine","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AP Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8607-0362","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yaozhong","family":"Xing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing 100020, China"},{"name":"Academic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Keita","family":"Ito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AP Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7206-325X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yong","family":"Hai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing 100020, China"},{"name":"Academic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2001-7251","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Panos","family":"Markopoulos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AP Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1899","DOI":"10.2106\/JBJS.O.00330","article-title":"The Evidence Base for the Prognosis and Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: The 2015 Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation Clinical Research Award","volume":"97","author":"Weinstein","year":"2015","journal-title":"J. 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