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Pain catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and fear-avoidance in non-specific work-related low-back pain as predictors of sickness absence.
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- Prognostic factors for return to work in patients affected by chronic low back pain: a systematic review.Musculoskeletal surgery · 2024Pooled it
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- Pilates in the Workplace: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Physical, Psychological, and Functional Outcomes in Employees.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
- Kinesiophobia and Work Disability in Fibromyalgia: Cognitive Mediation in a Population-Based Study of Women.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Exploring the relationships between multisite musculoskeletal pain, pain characteristics, and physical function: a cross-sectional analysis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Healthcare Consumption and Work Absenteeism of Individuals With and Without Persistent Complaints After COVID-19: The Role of Cognitive-Behavioural Factors, Neuropsychological Functioning and Depressive Symptoms.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
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- The relationship of fear of pain, pain anxiety, and fear-avoidance beliefs with perceived stress in surgical patients with postoperative kinesiophobia.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Burden of disease, pain catastrophizing, and central sensitization in relation to work-related issues in young spondyloarthritis patients.Reumatologia · 2024Article
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- Validity of On-Line Supervised Fitness Tests in People with Low Back Pain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
The influence of pain catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and fear-avoidance attitudes towards non-specific low-back pain has been scarcely studied in an occupational insurance provider context. The objective of this work is to ascertain the relationship between these psychosocial variables with work absence, its duration and the disability of subjects with work-related low back pain. This is a descriptive observational methodological strategy. All patients with work-related non-specific low back pain who attended to an occupational health hospital during the study period were included consecutively. Clinical variables of kinesiophobia, pain catastrophizing, fear-avoidance attitudes, disability and pain were collected; sociodemographic variables of sex, age, type of work, educational level, occupational status and duration in days of work absence were recorded. Kinesiophobia (b = 1.43, P = 0.011, r = 0.333), fear-avoidance beliefs in its global dimension (b = 0.910, P = 0.014, r = 0.321), fear-avoidance beliefs in its work dimension (b = 1.255, P = 0.016, r = 0.321) and pain catastrophizing (b = 0.997, P = 0.013, r = 0.340) show individual association with the duration of sickness absence. Kinesiophobia (b = 0.821, P = 0.011, r = 0.30) and fear-avoidance beliefs (b = 1.760, P = 0.016, r = 0.28) are associated with disability (Kinesiophobia, b = 0.880, P = 0.045, r = 0.26; Fear-avoidance beliefs, b = 0.724, P = 0.010, r = 0.34). Kinesiophobia, fear-avoidance beliefs and pain catastrophizing are related to an increase in the duration of work absence and disability in patients with back pain in an occupational insurance provider context.
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