Long-term trajectories of back pain: cohort study with 7-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe long-term trajectories of back pain.

Design

Monthly data collection for 6 months at 7-year follow-up of participants in a prospective cohort study.

Setting

Primary care practices in Staffordshire, UK.

Participants

228 people consulting their general practitioners with back pain, on whom information on 6-month back pain trajectories had been collected during 2001-2003, and who had valid consent and contact details in 2009-2010, were contacted. 155 participants (68% of those contacted) responded and provided sufficient data for primary analyses.

Outcome measures

Trajectories based on patients' self-reports of back pain were identified using longitudinal latent class analysis. Trajectories were characterised using information on disabi

SUBMITTER: Dunn KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3863121 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature