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Health-related quality of life and its determinants in patients with chronic low back pain at a tertiary hospital in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study.
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- Evaluation of Future Nurses' Beliefs and Fears About Pain: A Descriptive and Correlational Study.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- Association of Health-Related Quality of Life and Pain Medication Perception Among Chronic Low Back Pain Patients at Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Psychological Factors and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Influence of Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, Age, Biological Maturity and Anthropometric Variables on the Probability of Suffering Lumbar, Neck and Shoulder Pain in Spanish Adolescents from the Region of Murcia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Differences by Sex: A Longitudinal Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Associated with Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain in College Athletes.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Patient enablement and health-related quality of life for patients with chronic back and knee pain: a cross-sectional study in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023Article
- Chronic Low Back Pain: Prevalence, Impact on Quality of Life, and Predictors of Future Disability.Cureus · 2023Article
- The Impact of Low Back Pain on the Quality of Life of Children between 6 and 12 Years of Age.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Burden of disease and impact on quality of life in chronic back pain - a comparative cross-sectional study of 150 axial spondyloarthritis and 150 orthopedic back pain patients.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Determinants of quality of life in individuals with chronic low back pain: a systematic review.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and its determinants in chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients in Cameroon.
designObservational cross-sectional study.
settingTertiary hospital.
participantsThere were 150 eligible adults with low back pain of at least 12 weeks who provided informed consent. Of these, 136 with complete questionnaires were analysed. OUTCOMES: HRQoL was measured using the WHO Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF). Outcome measures included its four domain (physical health, psychological, social relationships and environmental) scores and two independent scores for overall quality of life (OQOL) and general health satisfaction (GH).
resultsParticipants had a median age of 52 years, and median pain duration of 33 (IQR: 69) months. The median OQOL score was 50 (IQR: 25). After multivariable adjustment, tertiary education (β=11.43, 95% CI 3.12 to 19.75), age (β=0.49, 95% CI 0.12 to 0.87) and being a student (β=23.07, 95% CI 0.28 to 45.86) contributed to better OQOL. Age (β=0.57, 95% CI 0.10 to 1.04) and physical-type employment (β=-14.57, 95% CI -25.83 to -3.31) affected GH. Smoking (β=-20.49, 95% CI -35.49 to -5.48) and radiological anomalies (β=-7.57, 95% CI -14.64 to -0.49) affected the physical health domain, while disability (β=-0.67, 95% CI -1.14 to -0.20) and duration of pain (β=-0.13, 95% CI -0.20 to -0.05) affected the psychological domain. Income (β=14.94, 95% CI 4.06 to 25.81) affected the social domain, while education (β=9.96, 95% CI 1.41 to 18.50) and disability (β=-0.75, 95% CI -1.26 to -0.24) affected the environmental domain.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that CLBP affects HRQoL and multiple socioeconomic and clinical factors influence its impact on different domains of HRQoL. Multipronged management programmes, especially those that reduce disability, could improve HRQoL in patients with CLBP.
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