The relationship between pain beliefs and physical and mental health outcome measures in chronic low back pain: direct and indirect effects
Journal article
Authors | Baird, Andrew and Sheffield, David |
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Abstract | Low back pain remains a major health problem with huge societal cost. Biomedical models fail to explain the disability seen in response to reported back pain and therefore patients’ beliefs, cognitions and related behaviours have become a focus for both research and practice. This study used the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire and had two aims: To examine the extent to which pain beliefs are related to disability, anxiety and depression; and to assess whether those relationships are mediated by pain self-efficacy and locus of control. In a sample of 341 chronic low back pain patients, organic and psychological pain beliefs were related to disability, anxiety and depression. However, organic pain beliefs were more strongly related to disability and depression than psychological pain beliefs. Regression analyses revealed that these relationships were in part independent of pain self-efficacy and locus of control. Further, mediation analyses revealed indirect pathways involving self-efficacy and, to a lesser extent chance locus of control, between organic pain beliefs, on the one hand, and disability, anxiety and depression, on the other. In contrast, psychological pain beliefs were only directly related to disability, anxiety and depression. Although longitudinal data are needed to corroborate our findings, this study illustrates the importance of beliefs about the nature of pain and beliefs in one’s ability to cope with pain in determining both physical and mental health outcomes in chronic low back pain patients. |
Low back pain remains a major health problem with huge societal cost. Biomedical models fail to explain the disability seen in response to reported back pain and therefore patients’ beliefs, cognitions and related behaviours have become a focus for both research and practice. This study used the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire and had two aims: To examine the extent to which pain beliefs are related to disability, anxiety and depression; and to assess whether those relationships are mediated by pain self-efficacy and locus of control. In a sample of 341 chronic low back pain patients, organic and psychological pain beliefs were related to disability, anxiety and depression. However, organic | |
Keywords | Low back pain; Pain beliefs; Disability; Pain self efficacy; Anxiety; Depression; Locus of control |
Year | 2016 |
Journal | Healthcare |
ISSN | 2227-9032 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare4030058 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/620538 |
hdl:10545/620538 | |
Publication dates | 19 Aug 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 10 Oct 2016, 13:36 |
Accepted | 11 Aug 2016 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to Healthcare |
Contributors | University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/94426/the-relationship-between-pain-beliefs-and-physical-and-mental-health-outcome-measures-in-chronic-low-back-pain-direct-and-indirect-effects
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