Abstract

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is theoretically low back pain experienced for more than 12 weeks or 3 months. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between pain perceptions, beliefs and symptom severity of individuals in different age groups with CLBP. The study was conducted between December 2022 and March 2023 with 210 individuals. Participants were divided into 3 groups according to age; 18-39, 40-56, 57-79. The Demographic Information Form, Pain Beliefs Scale (PBQ), Centrality of Pain Scale (COPS) and Numeric Rating Scale (NRS-11) questionare were used to record the personal information and to measure participant’s pain beliefs pain perceptions, and the severity of pain experienced. One-Way MANOVA was used to evaluate the difference between age groups. NRS-11 was found significantly different between age groups of 18-39/40-56 and 18-39/57-79 (p

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