Association between chronic pain and physical activity in a Swiss population-based cohort: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the bidirectional association between chronic pain and both subjectively and objectively measured physical activity (PA).

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Population-based sample in Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2014 to April 2017.

Participants

Non-stratified, representative sample of the population of Lausanne (Switzerland) aged 35-75 years. Participants were excluded if they had missing data for the pain or the PA questionnaires, for accelerometry (defined as >20% of non-wear time or duration <7 days) or for covariates.

Primary outcomes

Primary outcomes were association between chronic pain and previous, subjectively assessed PA (questionnaire), and subsequent, objectively assessed PA (accelerometry). Daily pain, pain duration, nu

SUBMITTER: Aebischer O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345067 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature