The relation of self-reported back pain to psychosocial, behavioral, and health-related factors in a working population in Switzerland

Ivo Foppa and Richard H. Noack

Social Science & Medicine, 1996, vol. 43, issue 7, 1119-1126

Abstract: Back pain causes a considerable loss of working days as well as health care costs and therefore represents a major public health problem in industrialized countries. Psychosocial factors have received increasing attention from researchers studying the causal factors of non-specific back pain. However, most studies focus on few dimensions, like individual or work-related factors. We studied the simultaneous association of various factors representing psychosocial, behavioral, and health-related dimensions to self-reported back pain. Data from the Berne Workplace Health Project on 850 employed men and women was analyzed. Back pain was operationalized by a dichotomized variable (having suffered moderately to severely from back pain in the preceding four weeks). The theoretical model guiding the underlying project was a general demand-resource model. Variables that--according to that model--were hypothesized to be related to back pain as well as more specific factors--like physical work load--were analyzed by stepwise logistic regression analysis. In men, there was a statistical trend (P

Keywords: back; pain; demand-resource; model; psychosocial; factors; functional; symptoms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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