Fear-avoidance beliefs and catastrophizing: Occurrence and risk factor in back pain and ADL in the general population

Pain

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 485-491

  Buer, Nina ^a,b   Linton, Steven J ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Back pain; Catastrophizing; Fear avoidance beliefs; General population

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL PAIN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BACK PAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036803109     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(02)00265-8     Document Type: Article

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