Abstract
Background: Avoidance of activity is a natural reaction that allows an injury to heal, but in patients following arthroscopic surgery, avoidance behavior is found to last longer than the actual injury. This can result in kinesiophobia, an irrational, crippling, and devastating fear of movement, affecting the patients' quality of life. Hence, this correlation study aimed to determine how the domains and subdomains of Kinesiophobia (TSK17) and Quality of Life (WHOQoL-BREF) interact in patients attempting to wean themselves off of walking aids. With the ethical Methodology: permission and informed consent of 42 arthroscopic patients who fullled the inclusion and exclusion criteria, two scales were administered to assess kinesiophobia (TSK-17) and QOL (WHOQoL-BREF). Data was gathered and statistically analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefcient. Results: The ndings show that 71% of the study population had clinically signicant kinesiophobia. Kinesiophobia was found to have a moderate negative correlation with the physical (r= -0.73) and psychological (r= -0.74) domains, a mild negative correlation with the environmental (r= - 0.33) domain, and no correlation with the social (r= -0.10) domain. This study found a statisticall Conclusion: y signicant inverse relationship between Kinesiophobia and the domains of quality of life. Thus, kinesiophobia merits further research during the weaning phase, and effective intervention strategies to reduce its impact on quality of life should be implemented
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