ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2021
What factors are associated with health-related quality of life among patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain? A cross-sectional study in primary health care.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Physical activity level and health-related quality of life in adults with multiple osteochondromas: a Dutch cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effects of pain management on work ability in aging workers with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Depression, Quality of Life and Medication Use Among Patients With Chronic Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study.Pain research & management · 2025Article
- Determinants of health-related quality of life in older people with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Pain in Adolescence: Maternal and Paternal Factors Affecting Adolescents' Pain in Norway-A Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints and health-related quality of life in a Maroon and Kalinya Indigenous rural village in Suriname.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Assessment of Pain Treatments in Disorders of Upper Limbs: A Qualitative Study Protocol Based on Patients' Experiences.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2023Article
- Mental health among patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and its relation to number of pain sites and pain intensity, a cross-sectional study among primary health care patients.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- The relationship between the Keele STarT back screening tool, the short form of central sensitivity inventory and health-related quality of life in patients with low back pain.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2022Article
- Chronotypes and disabling musculoskeletal pain: A Finnish birth cohort study.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2022Article
- Predictors of health-related quality of life in musculoskeletal disease patients: a longitudinal analysis.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2021Article
- Pursuing the Recovery of Severe Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Italy: Clinical and Organizational Perspectives from a SIAARTI Survey.Journal of pain research · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundChronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) affects daily life function and is the most prevalent disorder in primary health care. The primary objective was to examine demographic factors and pain characteristics associated with reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients in primary care reporting CMP. Our secondary objective was to compare HRQoL in patients with and without CMP.
methodThis cross-sectional study was conducted in Trondheim, Norway. Twenty randomly selected GPs, and their listed patients aged 21-58 were invited to participate. Self-reported CMP data was collected using online questionnaires. HRQoL was measured by the 15D questionnaire, total score of 0.9 was used as cut-off for clinical reduced HRQoL.
resultsA total of 969 patients (650 females) were recruited from six GPs' patient lists, mean age 45.6 (SD 10.1). CMP was reported by 517 (53%). Factors significantly associated with reduced HRQoL were gender (OR 2.0, 95% CI 1.2, 3.4), disability pension (OR 26.6, 95% CI 3.1, 228.0), mood (OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.1, 1.6), relations with other people (OR 0.8, 95% CI 0.6, 0.9), sleep (OR 1.2, 95% CI 1.0, 1.3) and enjoyment (OR 1.2, 95% CI 1.0). CMP patients had significantly lower total HRQoL score compared to patients without CMP (Between group difference 0.08, 95% CI 0.07-0.09). Half of the CMP patients reported a HRQoL score < 0.9 compared to 14% in the no CMP group.
conclusionsBeing female, receiving disability pension, and several psychosocial factors were found highly associated with reduced HRQoL in CMP patients, whereas pain characteristics were not. Patients with CMP reported statistically and clinically significant lower HRQoL than patients without CMP. Due to low response rate the conclusions must be handled with caution.
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