The correlation of pain intensity and quality of life in chronic LBP patients in Adam Malik general hospital

1st International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases (ICTROMI) Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sumatera Utara

Nasution, I.K.^1 ; Lubis, N.D.A.^2 ; Amelia, S.^3 ; Hocin, K.^4

Neurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia^1

Nutrition Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia^2

Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia^3

Student of Faculty Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia^4

关键词: Analytical research;    Cross-sectional design;    Emotional problems;    General hospitals;    Physical function;    Quality of Life (QoL);    Social function;    Spearman correlation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/125/1/012183/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/125/1/012183

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Low back pain (LBP) is a world health problems and a major cause of disability. The study is to determine the correlation between pain intensity and quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic LBP. This study was a descriptive, analytical research with the cross sectional design. Twenty-nine chronic LBP outpatients that have visited the Neurology Clinic of Adam Malik General Hospital Medan. Patients from July to November 2015 were selected by consecutive sampling. A questionnaire and interview are asking the information about subjects' characteristics, diagnosis, medical history, pain intensity and quality of life-based on WHO QoL criteria were used to collect the data. Using Spearman correlation test, we found correlation among VAS and physical function (p