Journal
JOURNAL OF MANIPULATIVE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL THERAPEUTICS
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 459-466Publisher
MOSBY-ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2017.06.004
Keywords
Pain; Comorbidity; Women's Health; Epidemiology
Funding
- Department of Health, Australian Government
- Hunter Medical Research Institute
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, via the Lions Club of Adamstown, NSW Australia [HMRI 11-35]
- Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
- COCA Research Limited Top-up Scholarship
- Lions Club of Adamstown Research Project Grant
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Objectives: The aims of this study were to (1) report the prevalence and explore the influence of spinal pain on quality of life and (2) assess the relationship between spinal pain and the type and number of comorbidities. Methods: This cross-sectional study comprised 579 community-dwelling, older Australian women. Women had spinal pain if they marked yes to neck pain, upper back pain, mid-back pain, and/or lower back pain. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression were performed to report the prevalence and explore the relationship between spinal pain and the type and number of comorbidities. Results: A majority of women (55.8%) who returned surveys had spinal pain. Women with spinal pain had significantly lower physical and mental quality of life scores than women without spinal pain (Medical Outcomes Study: 36 Item Short FormSurvey [SF-36] physical component summary: 40.1 +/- 11.1 vs 49.0 +/- 9.0, and SF-36 mental component summary: 50.0 +/- 10.5 vs 53.9 +/- 8.2, respectively). Having spinal pain was significantly associated with overweight and obesity (odds ratio 1.98 [95% confidence interval 1.3-2.96] and 2.12 [1.37-3.28]), diabetes (1.93 [1.01-3.67]), pulmonary comorbidity (1.66 [1.04-2.65]), and cardiovascular comorbidity (1.57 [1.07-2.28]). More than half of the women with spinal pain reported 2 or more comorbidities, with comorbidities significantly more common among women with spinal pain than among women without spinal pain. The odds of having spinal pain increased with an increasing number of comorbidities (2 comorbidities: 2.44 [1.47-4.04], 3 comorbidities: 3.07 [1.66-5.67], 4 comorbidities: 5.05 [1.64-15.54]). Conclusions: Spinal pain is common in community-dwelling, older Australian women and is associated with greater disability and poorer quality of life. Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, and obesity appear to have a relationship with spinal pain. There was an incremental increase in the risk of spinal pain associated with increasing comorbidity count.
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