Transitions in chronic low back pain in Japanese older adults: A sociomedical perspective

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Muramatsu, Naoko ^b   Liang, Jersey ^b   Sugisawa, Hidehiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030838070     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/52B.4.S222     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Baltes, M.M. and H. Wahl. 1992 "The Behavior System of Dependency in the Elderly: Interaction with the Social Environment." In M.G. Ory, R.F. Abels, and P.D. Lipman (Eds.), Aging Health and Behavior. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
2. Blair, S.N., H.W. Kohl, N.F. Cordon, and R.S. Paffenbarger, Jr. 1992. "How Much Physical Activity Is Good for Health'?" Annual Review of Public Health 13:99-126.
3. Carey, T., A. Evans, N. Hadler, W. Kalsbeek, C. McLaughlin, and J. Fryer. 1995. "Care-seeking among Individuals with Chronic Low Back Pain." Spin? 20:312-317.
4. Cohen, S. 1988. "Psychosocial Models of the Role of Social Support in the Etiology of Physical Disease." Health Psychology 7:269-297.
5. Croft, P.R. and A.S. Rigby. 1994. "Socioeconomic Influences on Back Problems in the Community in Britain." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 48:166-170.
6. Deyo, R.A. and J.E. Bass. 1989. "Lifestyle and Low-back Pain - the Influence of Smoking and Obesity." Spine 14:501-506.
7. Deyo, R.A., D. Cherkin, D. Conrad, and E. Volinn. 1991. "Cost, Controversy, Crisis: Low Back Pain and the Health of the Public." Annual Review of Public Health 12:141-156.
8. Deyo, R.A. and R. Tsui-Wu. 1987. "Descriptive Epidemiology of Low-back Pain and its Related Medical Care in the United States." Spine 12:264-268.
9. DiMatteo, M.R., and R. Hays. 1981. "Social Support and Serious Illness." In B. Gottlieb (Ed.), Social Networks and Social Support. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
10. Fordyee, W.E., R.S. Fowler, J.F. Lehmann, B.J. DeLateur, P.L., Sand, and R.B. Trieschmann. 1973. "Operant Conditioning in the Treatment of Chronic Pain." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 54(September):399-408.
11. Frymoyer, J.W. 1988. "Back Pain and Sciatica." The New England Journal of Medicine 318:291-300.
12. Glasser, M., T. Prohaska, and J. Roska. 1992. "The Role of the Family in Medical Care-seeking Decisions of Older Adults." Family and Community Health 15(2):59-70.
13. Guralnik, J.M. and G.A. Kaplan. 1989. "Predictors of Healthy Aging: Prospective Evidence from the Alameda County Study." American Journal of Public Health 79:703-708.
14. Health and Welfare Statistics Association (Ed.), 1995. Kokumin Eisei no Doko. Tokyo, Japan: Health and Welfare Statistics Association.
15. Hosmer, D.W. and S. Lemeshow. 1989. Applied logistic Regression. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
16. House, J.S., K.R. Landis, and D. Umberson. 1988. "Social Relationships and Health." Science 241 (July 291:540-545.
17. Iwakura, H., S. Sakuma, K. Takino, and T. Yamane 1988. "Koreisha-no Mansei-youtsu (Chronic back pain in the elderly]." Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology 31:1623-1630.
18. Jay, G.M., J. Liang, X. Liu, and H. Sugisawa. 1993. "Patterns of Nonresponse in a National Survey of Elderly Japanese." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 48:S143-S152.
19. Kalton, G. 1983. Compensating for Missing Survey Data. Research Report Series. Ann Arbor, MI: Survey Research Center. Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.
20. Kaplan, H.B. 1989. "Health, Disease, and the Social Structure." In H.E. Freeman and S. Levine (Eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology (4th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
21. Kiefer, C.W. 1987. "Care of the Aged in Japan." In F. Norbeck and M. Lock (Eds.) Health, Illness and Medical Care in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
22. Kleinman, A. 1986. Social Origins of Distress and Disease. New Haven: Yale University Press.
23. Kohn, M. 1987. "Cross-national Research as an Analytic Strategy." American Sociological Review 52:713-731.
24. Leino, P. 1993. "Does Leisure Time Physical Activity Prevent Low Back Disorders?" Spine 18:863-871.
25. Leppin, A. and R. Schwarzer. 1990. "Social Support and Physical Health: an Updated Meta-analysis." In L.R. Schmidt, P. Schwenkmeger, J. Weinman, and S. Maes (Eds.), Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Health Psychology, London: Harwood.
26. Liang, J., J. Bennett, N. Whitelaw, and D. Maeda. 1991. "The Structure of Self-reported Physical Health Among the Aged in the United States and Japan." Medical Care 29:1161-1180.
27. Liang, J., J. Bennett, H. Akiyama, and D. Maeda. 1992. "The Structure of the PGC Morale Scale in American and Japanese Aged: A Further Look." Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology 7:45-68.
28. Liao, T.F. 1994. Interpreting Probability Models: Logit. Probit. and Other Generalized Linear Models. (Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences No. 101). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
29. Liu, X., J. Liang, and S. Gu. 1995. "Flows of Social Support and Health Status Among Older Persons in China." Social Science and Medicine 41:1175-1184.
30. Liu, X., J. Liang, N. Muramatsu, and H. Sugisawa. 1995. "Transitions in Functional Status and Active Life Expectancy Among Older People in Japan." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 50B:S383-S394.
31. Lock, M. 1987. "Protests of a Good Wife and Wise Mother: The Medicalization of Distress in Japan." In E. Norbeck and M. Lock (Eds.). Health, Illness and Medical Care in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
32. Magaziner, J. 1992. "The Use of Proxy Respondents in Health Studies on the Aged." In R.B. Wallace and R.F. Woolson (Eds.), The Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
33. Markides, K.S. 1989. "Characteristics of Dropouts and Prediction of Mortality in a Longitudinal Study of Older Mexican-Americans and Anglos." In R.A. Ward and S.S. Tobin (Eds), Health in Aging: Sociological Issues and Policy Direction. New York: Springer.
34. Marsella, A.J., N. Sartorius, A. Jablensky, and F.R. Fenton. 1985. "Cross-cultural Studies of Depressive Disorders: An Overview." In A. Kleinman and B. Good (Eds.), Culture and Depression - Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder. Berkeley: University of California Press.
35. Mechanic, D. and R.J. Angel. 1987. "Some Factors Associated with the Report and Evalualion of Back Pain." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 29(June):131-139.
36. Muramatsu, N. 1995. Social Relationships and Chronic Illness Transitions. PhD dissertation. Ann Arbor. MI: The University of Michigan.
37. Murata, H. and T. Inoue. 1993. "Back Pain and Joint Pain." Sogo Rinsho 42:2257-2261.
38. Murphy, E., R. Smith, J. Lindesay, and J. Slattery. 1988. "Increased Mortality Rates in Late-life Depression." British Journal of Psychiatry 152:347-353.
39. Nagaosa, Y., S. Kikuchi, and S. Konno. 1994. "Epidemiology of Low Back Pain, Sciatica and Knee Pain: a Cross-sectional Questionnaire Study." Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology 37:59-67.
40. Nakano, N. 1994. "Nichijouseikatsu-to Youtsu [Daily living and chroniclow back pain]." Journal of Japanese Orthopaedic Association 68:36-42.
41. Ohta, N., K. Yonenobu, K. Ono, F. Wada, K. Oda, and S. Miyamoto. 1994. "The Characteristics of Low Back Pain in the Elderly." Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatoloy 37:241-247.
42. Orth-Gomer, K. and A. Unden. 1987. "The Measurement of Social Support in Population Surveys." Social Science and Medicine 24:83-94.
43. Preston, S.H and P. Taubman. 1994. "Socioeconomic Differences in Adult Mortality and Health Status." In L. Martin and S. Preston (Eds.). Demography of Aging. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
44. Radloff, L. 1977. "The CES-D Scale: a Self-report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population." Applied Psychological Measurement 1:385-401.
45. Reisbord, L.S. and S. Greenland. 1985. "Factors Associated with Self-reported Back-pain Prevalence: a Population-based Study." Journal of Chronic Disease 38:691-702.
46. Riley, M.W., A. Foner, and J. Waring. 1988. "Sociology of Age." In N.J. Smelser (Ed.), Handbook of Sociology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
47. Skovron, M.L. 1992. "Epidemiology of Low Back Pain." Bailliere's Clinical Rheumatology: International Practice and Research, 6:559-573.
48. Somucho (Ed.). 1992. Rojin-no Seikutsu-to Ishiki [Life and opinion of the elderly: The Third International Study Report]. Tokyo: Chuoh Hohki.
49. Sugisawa, H., J. Liang. and X. Liu. 1994. "Social Networks, Social Support, and Mortality Among Older People in Japan." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 49:S3-S13.
50. Umberson, D. 1987. "Family Status and Health Behaviors: Social Control as a Dimension of Social Integration." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 28:306-319.
51. Verbrugge, L.M. 1985. "Gender and Health: An Update on Hypotheses and Evidence." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 26:156-182.
52. Von Korff, M., R.A. Deyo, D. Cherkin, and W. Barlow. 1993. "Back Pain in Primary Care - Outcomes at 1 Year." Spine 18:855-862.
53. Weiser, S. and C. Cedraschi. 1992. "Psychosocial Issues in the Prevention of Chronic Low Back Pain - a Literature Review." Bailliere's Clinical Rheumatology 6:657-684.
54. Winship C. and R.D. Mare. 1983. "Structural Equations and Path Analysis for Discrete Data." American Journal of Sociology, 89:54-109.
55. Wortman, C.B. and T.L. Conway. 1985. "The Role of Social Support in Adaptation and Recovery from Physical Illness." In S. Cohen and S.L. Syme (Eds.), Social Support and Health. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.