Abstract
Aims: to determine the prevalence of acute and chronic back pain and associated factors and identify the consequences of this pain in adults and the elderly in southern Brazil.Methods: cross-sectional study conducted in 2019, in Criciúma, Santa Catarina, in individuals aged 18 and over. Acute back pain was pain in the cervical, thoracic, or lumbar regions not exceeding 3 months and chronic pain as pain for 3 months or more. Bivariate analyzes and multinomial logistic regression were performed.Results: among the 820 participants, the prevalence of back pain was 67.0%, acute pain 39.3% (95% CI: 35.5% to 43.3%) and chronic pain 27.4% (95% CI: 24.5% to 30.4%). Acute back pain was associated with women, overweight, obesity, and with WMSD/RSI, while chronic pain chronic pain was found mostly in women, being related to leisure inactivity ...were female, leisure inactivity, falls, Work-related musculoskeletal disorder/repetitive strain injury, and arthritis/rheumatism.Conclusions: acute pain was greater among overweight/obese and chronic pain contribute to absenteeism and demand for health services.
Highlights
Pain is a multifactorial phenomenon defined by the International Association for Study of Pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience described as tissue, real, or potential lesions [1]
We found that 39.3% of individuals reported having acute back pain and 27.4% chronic back pain
Overweight and obesity were associated with acute back pain, while leisure physical inactivity, falls in the last year, and suffering from arthritis/rheumatism were associated with chronic back pain
Summary
Pain is a multifactorial phenomenon defined by the International Association for Study of Pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience described as tissue, real, or potential lesions [1]. Back pain is among the main musculoskeletal symptoms with potential physical and psychosocial consequences [2]. It is always subjective and related to previous experiences and socio-cultural or environmental factors [1]. Back pain’s consequences provide direct costs (health care) and indirect costs (work absenteeism, disability pensions) to the public health system [3]. In the United States, only in 2016, approximately US$ 440 million were spent between direct and indirect costs in more than 31 billion people [4]. In Brazil, direct costs related to spinal disorders have increased by about 170% in the last decade [5]
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