Evaluation of patients with chronic low back pain

• Grant number: 11/04626-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Priscilla Hortense
• Grantee: Thais Stefane
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Chronic low back pain can cause a deficit in quality of life, which commits daily activities, employment, social, leisure and causes emotional damage. This study justified the need for greater knowledge in the perception of chronic low back pain in our context, its impact on daily life, besides reinforcing the importance of the measurement and assessment of pain in enabling the treatment effectiveness. This study aims to evaluate patients with chronic low back pain and specific objectives of socio-demographically that characterize these patients, identify the level of quality of life, the level of depression, the level of disability, the intensity of perceived pain and characterize chronic low back pain through the pain descriptors and associate quality of life and pain intensity, quality of life and depression, depression and intensity of pain, disability and intensity of pain, disability and quality of life, disability and depression. Quantitative methodology will be used, and the sample consists of patients treated as outpatients in a Pain Clinic of São Carlos, Brazil and everyone should have the medical diagnosis of Chronic Low Back Pain. Data collection will be accomplished by structured interviews using the following instruments: instrument to characterize demographic and socio-economic status of the patient; Likert scale (0-10) to measure the intensity of pain; BDI - Beck Depression Inventory for assess the level of depression; WHOQOL-BREF to assess quality of life, Roland-Morris Questionnaire for disability and the Multidimensional pain evaluation scale for descriptors instrument of pain for the characterization of chronic pain. (AU)