Back pain and social isolation: Cross-sectional validation of the friendship scale for use in studies on low back pain

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 245-252

  Hawthorne, Graeme ^a   De Morton, Natalie ^b,c   Kent, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Northern Health   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Friendship Scale; low back pain; psychometric; quality of life; social isolation; validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; FRIENDSHIP SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LONELINESS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POPULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RASCH ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873396066     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31824b3aed     Document Type: Article

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