biostudies-literatureVolinn ENCATS NIH HHSNCRR NIH HHS705-12https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4826330biostudies-literatureUnknown41(8)<h4>Study design</h4>This was a pilot, cross-sectional study. Its site was West China Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.<h4>Objective</h4>An objective was to explore whether, in China, chronic low back pain (cLBP) characteristically is one symptom among co-occurring subjective symptoms. More basic objectives were to test a supplemented list of symptoms and to reconfigure findings from the literature on co-occurrence of symptoms so that they pertain specifically to cLBP. The governing metaphor was a constellation of symptoms in which cLBP is located.<h4>Summary of background data</h4>With the exception of small, isolated societies, previous studies of co-occurrence of symptoms were conducted in the affluent West. Although China's population is larger than the combined populations of affSpineThe Constellation of Chronic Low Back Pain and Other Subjective Symptoms: Does the View Differ From China?PMC48263308UL1TR000105UL1 RR025764UL1 TR000105UL1RR025764Chen NSheng XVolinn EZuo YYing JYang BLin JfalseThe Constellation of Chronic Low Back Pain and Other Subjective Symptoms: Does the View Differ From China?<h4>Study design</h4>This was a pilot, cross-sectional study. Its site was West China Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.<h4>Objective</h4>An objective was to explore whether, in China, chronic low back pain (cLBP) characteristically is one symptom among co-occurring subjective symptoms. More basic objectives were to test a supplemented list of symptoms and to reconfigure findings from the literature on co-occurrence of symptoms so that they pertain specifically to cLBP. The governing metaphor was a constellation of symptoms in which cLBP is located.<h4>Summary of background data</h4>With the exception of small, isolated societies, previous studies of co-occurrence of symptoms were conducted in the affluent West. Although China's population is larger than the combined populations of aff2016-01-01T00:00:00Z2016 Apr2025-04-04T13:22:21.634Z2019-03-27T03:11:38ZS-EPMC48263302665087510.1097/BRS.000000000000131910.1097/brs.0000000000001319