Assessment of health-related quality of life and patient's knowledge in chronic non-specific low back pain

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 21; no. Suppl 1; pp. 1479 - 8
• Main Authors: Járomi, Melinda, Szilágyi, Brigitta, Velényi, Anita, Leidecker, Eleonóra, Raposa, Bence László, Hock, Márta, Baumann, Petra, Ács, Pongrác, Makai, Alexandra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 23-04-2021; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Age; Back pain; Chronic pain; Chronic Pain - epidemiology; Confidence intervals; Demographics; Developed countries; Disability Evaluation; Disease prevention; Health aspects; Health literacy; Health Surveys; Health-related quality of life; Humans; Hungary; Knowledge; Low Back Pain; Pain; Parameters; Patient education; Public health; Quality assessment; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Roland Morris disability questionnaire; Short form health survey; Signs and symptoms; Social determinants; Sociodemographics; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; Womens health; Hungary; Health-related quality of life; Short form health survey; Roland Morris disability questionnaire; Social determinants; Low back pain
• ISSN: 1471-2458; 1471-2458
• DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-09506-7

Chronic non-specific low back pain syndrome (cnsLBP) is a severe health problem in developed countries, which has an important effect on patients' quality of life and is highly determined by socio-demographic factors and low back pain specific knowledge. We examined patients' health-related quality of life according to the results of the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), low back pain knowledge (LBPKQ) and the social determinants of the participants.
We carried out our research in the first half of 2015 in Southern Transdanubia, Hungary. The examination included 1155 respondents living with chronic non-specific low back pain. The confidence interval of 95% was used, and the level of. significance was p < 0.05 using SPSS 22.0 software.
The SF-36 questionnaire is suitable for the examination of patients' health-related quality of life (Cronbach's Alpha> 0.76), as the LBPKQ's Cronbach's Alpha was 0.726 also, which showed good validity. Longer-term disease meant a lower health-related quality of life (p < 0.05). A greater decrease of function (Roland Morris scores (RM)) accounts for a lower HRQoL and higher knowledge level. We found significant differences in LBPKQ scores according to sociodemographic parameters. The general health status was positively correlated with LBPKQ (p = 0.024) adjusted for demographic and pain and functional status.
The negative effect of the symptoms on patients' quality of life is proved, which is determined by different socio-demographic parameters furthermore by knowledge. Above all could be useful information for professionals to adopt the right interventions.