Sex differences in presentation, course, and management of low back pain in primary care.
| Autor: | Chenot JF; Department of General Practice parallelDepartment of Anesthesiology, Pain Clinic, University Goettingen, Germany. jchenot@gwdg.de, Becker A, Leonhardt C, Keller S, Donner-Banzhoff N, Hildebrandt J, Basler HD, Baum E, Kochen MM, Pfingsten M |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | The Clinical journal of pain [Clin J Pain] 2008 Sep; Vol. 24 (7), pp. 578-84. |
| DOI: | 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31816ed948 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: Epidemiologic surveys frequently show that women more often and are more affected by low back pain (LBP). The aim of this secondary analysis of a randomized controlled study was to explore whether presentation and course of LBP of women is different from men, and if sex affects the use of healthcare services for LBP. Methods: Data from 1342 [778 (58%) women] patients presenting with LBP in 116 general practices were collected. Patients completed standardized questionnaires before and after consultation and were contacted by phone 4 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months later for standardized interviews by study nurses. Functional capacity was assessed with Hannover Functional Ability Questionnaire (HFAQ). Logistic regression models-adjusting for sociodemographic and disease-related data-were conducted to investigate the effect of sex for the use of healthcare services. Results: Women had on average a lower functional capacity at baseline and after 12 months. They were more likely to have recurrent or chronic LBP and to have a positive depression score. Being female was associated with a low functional capacity after 12 months (odds ratio: 1.7, 95% confidence interval: 1.2-2.3), but baseline functional capacity, chronicity, and depression were stronger predictors. In univariate analysis, women had a tendency of higher use of healthcare services. Those differences disappeared after adjustment. Discussion: Our findings confirm that women are more severely affected by LBP and have a worse prognosis. Utilization of healthcare services cannot be fully explained by female sex, but rather by a higher impairment by back pain and pain in other parts of the body characteristic of the female population. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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