Correlations Between Biopsychosocial Variables and Low Back Pain

This paper examines the correlations between biopsychosocial variables and low back pain. 160 German females and 110 German males (N = 270) completed a battery of questionnaires assessing their pain experience (chronicity and intensity), comorbidities, and causal attributions about disease onset. Significant relationships were found beween chronic back pain and higher age, lower education, and higher depression scale scores. Higher intensity back pain was significantly associated with being female, lower education, and higher depression scale scores. No significant associations were found between comorbidities and low back pain. Analyses of the causal attributions about disease onset revealed that back pain patients considered the item "constantly being stressed out" to be particularly relevant to the onset of heart disease, participants seemed less certain which personality factors play a role in the onset of low back pain.

Level thesis:degree_level

thesis.doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher

Universität Heidelberg

Year

2003

Author dc:creator

• Feldt, Kimberly A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Manfred Amelang

Repository record source_url

http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/4483

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de:4483