Investigating Functional Impairment in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study from the Patients and Specialists’ Perspectives
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Physicians’ Survey
2.2. Patients’ Survey
- (a)
- Diagnosis of cLBP. The pool of eligible patients was provided by the clinicians who participated in the survey. Clinical data were independently evaluated by two expert researchers (A.C. and F.M.).
- (b)
- Able to understand the information describing the research study.
- (c)
- Signed informed consent prior to filling in the survey.
- (a)
- Uncertain diagnosis of pain.
- (b)
- Any cognitive impairment.
- (c)
- Refusal to participate in research.
2.3. Data Analysis
2.4. Ethics Approval and Informed Consent
3. Results
3.1. Physicians Survey
3.1.1. General Medical Practitioners
3.1.2. Orthopedists
3.1.3. Pain Therapists
3.1.4. Physiatrists
3.2. Patients Survey
4. Discussion
Study Limitations
5. Perspectives
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Rank * | Item | Occurrences (n) |
---|---|---|
1 | Patient | 98 |
2 | Pain | 90 |
3 | Functional recovery | 29 |
4 | Scale | 21 |
5 | Therapy | 20 |
6 | Treatment | 20 |
7 | Low back pain | 19 |
8 | Activity | 18 |
9 | Recovery | 18 |
10 | Important | 18 |
11 | Chronic | 18 |
12 | Improve | 16 |
13 | Aim | 16 |
14 | Cause | 16 |
15 | Improvement | 15 |
16 | Possible | 15 |
17 | Evaluate | 15 |
18 | Reduction | 15 |
19 | Evaluation | 15 |
20 | Psychological | 14 |
Rank * | General Practitioner | Orthopedist | Pain Therapist | Physiatrist | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Item | Occurrences | Item | Occurrences | Item | Occurrences | Item | Occurrences | |
1 | Pain | 15 | Patient | 38 | Patient | 20 | Pain | 31 |
2 | Patient | 12 | Therapy | 25 | Pain | 15 | Patient | 26 |
3 | Important | 10 | Pain | 19 | Social | 10 | Scale | 17 |
4 | Psychological | 9 | Functional recovery | 14 | Work | 8 | Autonomy | 9 |
5 | Recovery | 7 | Low back pain | 13 | Important | 6 | Reduction | 9 |
6 | Origin | 4 | Treatment | 11 | Fundamental | 6 | Disease | 8 |
7 | Mechanical | 4 | Pharmacological | 10 | Recover | 5 | Activity | 8 |
8 | Muscular | 4 | Clinical practice | 9 | Disability | 5 | Capability | 8 |
9 | Cause | 4 | Chronic | 9 | Psychological | 5 | Improvement | 8 |
10 | Psychosocial | 3 | Objective | 9 | Working activity | 5 | Chronic pain | 8 |
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Cuomo, A.; Marinangeli, F.; Magni, A.; Petrucci, E.; Vittori, A.; Cascella, M. Investigating Functional Impairment in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study from the Patients and Specialists’ Perspectives. J. Pers. Med. 2023, 13, 1012. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13061012
Cuomo A, Marinangeli F, Magni A, Petrucci E, Vittori A, Cascella M. Investigating Functional Impairment in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study from the Patients and Specialists’ Perspectives. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2023; 13(6):1012. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13061012
Chicago/Turabian StyleCuomo, Arturo, Franco Marinangeli, Alberto Magni, Emiliano Petrucci, Alessandro Vittori, and Marco Cascella. 2023. "Investigating Functional Impairment in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study from the Patients and Specialists’ Perspectives" Journal of Personalized Medicine 13, no. 6: 1012. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13061012