Physical activity, fear avoidance beliefs and level of disability in a multi-ethnic female population with chronic low back pain in Suriname: A population-based study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 10; p. e0276974
• Main Authors: Ho-A-Tham, Nancy, Struyf, Niels, Ting-A-Kee, Beverly, de Almeida Mello, Johanna, Vanlandewijck, Yves, Dankaerts, Wim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 31.10.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Avoidance; Back pain; Backache; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Chronic pain; Cross-Sectional Studies; Disability Evaluation; Ethnic factors; Ethnicity; Exercise; Fear; Female; Health aspects; Households; Houses; Humans; Leisure; Longitudinal studies; Low back pain; Low Back Pain - epidemiology; Medicin/Teknik; Medicine and Health Sciences; Medicine/Technology; Minority & ethnic groups; Musculoskeletal Pain; Older people; Pain; Patient outcomes; People and places; Physical activity; Physical fitness; Physiological aspects; Population; Population studies; Population-based studies; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Rheumatic diseases; Sedentary behavior; Social Sciences; Sociodemographics; Suriname - epidemiology; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; Urban areas; Womens health; Workload; Suriname

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is an important cause for reduced daily physical activity (PA) and loss of quality of life, especially in women. In Suriname, a middle-income country in South America, the relationship between PA and CLBP is still unknown. To assess the level of PA in women with CLBP of...