Articles: back-pain.
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Orthopaedic nursing · Jan 1992
ReviewPerception of control and appraisal of illness in chronic low back pain.
People who experience chronic low back pain face significant changes in their lives, and it is unclear why some people adapt to the pain situation better than others. Using a cognitive appraisal model, outcomes of the pain situation were examined in 40 chronic low back pain patients using situational control and appraisal of illness as predicted mediating factors. This article presents background of the problem and the results of the study.
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The paper reports the results of a population-based pain survey in Lübeck, a city of 210,000 inhabitants in the northern part of Germany. Data were collected from 308 respondents (systematic sample aged 26-75 years) by mailed questionnaires (response rate: 80%). Subjects indicated on a list of 11 pain conditions whether they suffered from these kinds of painever, during the past 6 months, or "today". ⋯ However, 8% of the total sample reported more than 14 pain-related disability days and were classified as being affected by pain to a sociomedically relevant degree. Approximately half of the subjects who reported pain in the past 6 months did not consult a physician. This proportion decreased considerably in subgroups with more than 6 disability days.