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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 97-B, Issue SUPP_2 | Pages 28 - 28
1 Feb 2015
Serbic D Pincus T Fife-Schaw C Dawson H
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Purpose of the study and background

In the majority of low back pain (LBP) patients a definitive cause for back pain cannot be established; consequently, many patients report feeling uncertain about their diagnosis. They also experience pain-related guilt, which can be divided into: social guilt, managing pain guilt and verification of pain guilt. This study aimed to test a theoretical (causal) model, which proposed that diagnostic uncertainty leads to pain-related guilt, which leads to depression, anxiety and finally to disability.

Summary of the methods used and the results

Structural equation modelling was employed to test this model on 438 participants with LBP. The model demonstrated an adequate to good fit with the data. Diagnostic uncertainty predicts all three types of guilt. Verification of pain guilt predicts disability, managing pain guilt predicts anxiety, while social guilt was the strongest predictor of negative outcomes, predicting depression, anxiety and disability.