Behavioral and Emotional Factors Associated With Pain Severity

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

123 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-01-19

Study Completion Date

2022-06-01

Brief Summary

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The planned research will address the behavioral and emotional factors associated with low back pain rather than a structural and biological cause. It will be determined to what extent the results obtained according to the ICF model are effective on the participation of patients with low back pain in daily activities, and it will become clear whether patients with low back pain should be approached only mechanically in the rehabilitation programs.

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Detailed Description

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Chronic low back pain is among the most important health and economic problems of today. In particular, the success of chronic low back pain treatment with current approaches based on the biomedical care model, which is thought to be synonymous with pain and tissue damage, is limited. It has been demonstrated that tissue damage is not a prerequisite for the development of chronic low back pain. Several studies have shown a strong association between chronic low back pain and psychological factors such as anxiety, fear avoidance, distress/depressed mood, anger, poor coping strategies, and low pain self-efficacy. Despite all this important information and evidence, there is a lack of an overview of the behavioral and emotional factors associated with pain severity, as studies mostly focus on a few major factors. However, the strong interaction between behavioral and emotional factors leads to confusion.

The psychological factors mentioned above are open to discussion, and people with chronic low back pain may experience increased pain severity as a result of emotional processing inadequacy. Baker et al identified five factors for emotional processing deficits related to emotion suppression, unprocessed emotion symptoms, unregulated emotion, avoidance, and poor emotional experience. It is hypothesized that the stated emotional processing deficits have a potential role in the increase in pain severity and development of pain in individuals with chronic low back pain. Therefore, depending on the severity of emotional processing openness, the person may feel pain more than it actually is, exhibit more fear avoidance behavior, and develop negative coping strategies with pain. More recently, Baker et al. argued that the sensation of pain lies at the interface between physical and psychological processes, and therefore, impaired emotional processing may be associated with both psychological factors and physical conditions such as chronic low back pain. However, it is currently unknown whether patients with chronic low back pain process pain sensation differently from asymptomatic individuals. Therefore, behavioral and emotional factors related to pain severity have not been clearly revealed.

The aim of this study is to determine the behavioral and emotional factors associated with pain severity in patients with chronic low back pain.

Conditions

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Back Pain Lower Back Chronic

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Study

Participants' pain level and pain-related behaviors will be questioned.

Diagnostic Test

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Diagnostic Test

Interventions

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Diagnostic Test

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Being between 20-55 years old
* Having a history of chronic low back pain for at least 3 months
* Having a low back pain level of 1 or higher according to the Visual Analog Scale

Exclusion Criteria

* Having had any surgery on the lumbar region
* Having a history of lower extremity surgery
* Having acute low back pain
* Having a neurological disease
* Having sensory loss
* Presence of a rheumatological disease that may cause low back pain
* Having a herniated disc pressing on the sacral nerves
* being pregnant

Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

55 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes