A Cross-cultural Study of the Back Pain Beliefs of Female Undergraduate Healthcare Students
| Autor: | Suet May Tam, Boon Tan, Michelle Leong, Wendy Tzzy-Jinan Wang, Ka Man Yeung, Peter O'Sullivan, Ching Ching Sze, Angus Burnett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
Physical Therapy Specialty medicine.medical_specialty Students Health Occupations Psychometrics Attitude of Health Personnel Alternative medicine Taiwan White People Young Adult Asian People health services administration Surveys and Questionnaires Health care medicine Back pain Cross-cultural Humans Education Nursing Singapore business.industry Australia Cross-cultural studies Low back pain Acculturation Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Back Pain Family medicine Physical therapy population characteristics Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | The Clinical journal of pain. 25(1) |
| ISSN: | 1536-5409 |
| Popis: | To determine if country (Australia, Taiwan, Singapore), undergraduate healthcare course (physiotherapy, nursing), low back pain (LBP) history, and year of course influenced various back pain beliefs in undergraduate female healthcare students.Three hundred and 82 female undergraduate nursing and physiotherapy students completed questionnaires examining; the inevitability of future life with low back trouble, the LBP beliefs held by healthcare providers and fear avoidance beliefs related to physical activity. Also participants completed questionnaires to determine their LBP status. General linear models were used to determine whether differences existed for back beliefs scores.Differences were evident in the future consequence of LBP between countries (P0.001), undergraduate course (P0.001), and LBP status (P=0.021). Healthcare provider beliefs were found to be significantly influenced by course only (P0.001). Fear avoidance beliefs related to physical activity were influenced by country (P=0.002) and undergraduate course (P0.001). When compared with white Australians, Taiwanese and Singaporean Chinese displayed more negative back beliefs regarding the future consequence of LBP (P0.001) and more fear avoidant beliefs toward physical activity (P=0.021 and P0.001, respectively). Further, nursing students had more negative back pain beliefs than physiotherapy students (P0.001) and, the experience of LBP was associated with more positive beliefs on the future consequence of back trouble (P=0.021).Findings of this study highlight the importance of country, education, and LBP experience on back pain beliefs. The more negative back pain beliefs found in Taiwan and Singapore may reflect current pain beliefs and management attitudes. |
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