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Self-efficacy, fear avoidance, and pain intensity as predictors of disability in subacute and chronic musculoskeletal pain patients in primary health care
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This study examined the relations between disability, as measured by the Pain Disability Index (PDI) and self-efficacy, fear avoidance variables (kinesiophobia and catastrophizing), and pain intensity, using a prospective design. Two primary health care samples (n(1)=210; n(2)=161) of patients with subacute, chronic or recurring musculoskeletal pain completed sets of questionnaires at the beginning of a physiotherapy treatment period. Multiple hierarchial regression analyses showed that self-efficacy explained a considerably larger proportion of the variance in disability scores than the fear avoidance variables in the first sample. This finding was replicated in the second sample. Pain intensity explained a small, but significant proportion of the variance in disability scores in one sample only. Gender, age, and pain duration were not related to disability. These findings suggest that self-efficacy beliefs are more important determinants of disability than fear avoidance beliefs in primary health care patients with musculoskeletal pain. The findings also suggest that pain-related beliefs, such as self-efficacy and fear avoidance, in turn, are more important determinants of disability than pain intensity and pain duration in these patients.
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“One exception is the area of chronic pain research, where several studies demonstrated that perceived self-efficacy not only modulates pain perception (Bandura et al., 1987), but crucially determines coping behavior and quality of life, independently of and often more strongly than physical variables, such as pain intensity or duration (Arnstein et al., 1999; Denison et al., 2004; Burke et al., 20”
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“As high self-efficacy is suggested to be a more robust determinant of disability than pain intensity or duration,29”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Denison, E., Åsenlöf, P., & Lindberg, P.
- Affiliations
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Denison, Eva
- ORCID
- Åsenlöf, P.
- Venue
- Pain
- Published
- 2004-10
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 245-252
- ISSN
- 0304-3959 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2072413892
- Cited by
- 392
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 7.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Pain (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Vårdalstiftelsen
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Treatment
- Keywords
- self-efficacy, fear avoidance, pain intensity, disability, musculoskeletal pain, chronic pain, subacute pain, kinesiophobia, pain catastrophizing, Pain Disability Index, pain beliefs, physiotherapy, primary care
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Avoidance Learning, Chronic Disease, Disability Evaluation, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Musculoskeletal Diseases, Pain, Pain Measurement, Predictive Value of Tests, Primary Health Care, Regression Analysis, Self Efficacy
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