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January 2, 2024Bulletin of Faculty of Physical TherapyOpen Access

Pain intensity, physical activity, quality of life, and disability in patients with mechanical low back pain: a cross-sectional study

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EEEzinne EkediegwuCOChukwuneke Vivian OnwukikeOOOgochukwu Kelechi Onyeso

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Overview

Cross-sectional study finds high pain correlates with severe disability and reduced physical activity in chronic low back pain, highlighting the value of routine physical function assessments.

Key Points

  • To determine pain intensity, physical activity, quality of life, and disability levels, and analyze their interrelationships and sociodemographic associations in chronic mechanical low back pain.
  • Conducted a cross-sectional study using consecutive sampling of 250 patients with chronic mechanical low back pain (154 females, 96 males) in Nigeria.
  • Assessed outcomes using the Numeric Pain Scale, International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form, WHO Quality-of-Life Brief, and Oswestry Disability Index.
  • Analyzed data using descriptive statistics, Chi-square tests, Spearman's rank correlation, and structural equation modeling (SEM).
  • Mean outcome values were 5.97 ± 2.69 for pain intensity, 1118.03 ± 615.30 MET for physical activity, 73.45% ± 14.21 for quality of life, and 21.7% ± 18.94 for disability.
  • SEM demonstrated a strong positive association between pain intensity and disability (β = 0.80, p < 0.001), alongside significant correlations between physical activity and disability (rho = −0.42, p = 0.010) and physical activity and quality of life (rho = 0.36, p = 0.001).
  • Age was significantly associated with physical activity (χ2 = 8.52, p = 0.045), but other sociodemographic variables showed no significant relationship with pain intensity, physical activity, quality of life, or disability.

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Ekediegwu et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa70001eb8aab1a4ee08985https://doi.org/10.1186/s43161-023-00167-2
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