Low back pain patients in primary care: Subgroups based on the multidimensional pain inventory |
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Authors: | Eva Johansson Per Lindberg |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Section of Caring Sciences, Uppsala Science Park, S—751 83 Uppsala, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Classification of patients into homogeneous subgroups is an important objective in primary care management of low back pain
patients. The purpose of this studyis to (a) identify and describe cluster profiles based on self-reported multidimensional
pain inventory Scale (MPI) scores among subacute and chronic nonspecific low back pain patients; (b) describe characteristics
of the clusters in relation to disability, life satisfaction, functional self-efficacy, and exercise self-efficacy; and (c)
compare grouping by clusters based on self-reported MPI scores with grouping by symptom duration. Eighty-eight individuals
participated. These had a median lower back pain duration of 7 months (range 1 to 144 months). Three clusters were identified;
these were labeled interpersonally distressed, adaptive copers, and dysfunctional. The clusters differed significantly in
disability and functional self-efficacy scores, but not in life satisfaction and exercise self-efficacy scores. The results
of this study in a primary care setting are discussed in relation to previous results in pain clinic settings. |
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Keywords: | classification low back pain primary care multidimensional pain inventory disability self-efficacy |
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