RT Journal Article
T1 Pain catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and fearavoidance in non-specific work-related lowback pain as predictors of sickness absence
A1 Macías Toronjo, Israel
A1 Rojas Ocaña, María Jesús
A1 Sánchez Ramos, José Luis
A1 García Navarro, Esperanza Begoña
AB The influence of pain catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and fear-avoidance attitudes towardsnon-specific low-back pain has been scarcely studied in an occupational insurance providercontext. The objective of this work is to ascertain the relationship between these psychoso-cial variables with work absence, its duration and the disability of subjects with work-relatedlow back pain. This is a descriptive observational methodological strategy. All patients withwork-related non-specific low back pain who attended to an occupational health hospital dur-ing the study period were included consecutively. Clinical variables of kinesiophobia, pain cat-astrophizing, fear-avoidance attitudes, disability and pain were collected; sociodemographicvariables of sex, age, type of work, educational level, occupational status and duration in daysof work absence were recorded. Kinesiophobia (b = 1.43, P = 0.011, r = 0.333), fear-avoid-ance beliefs in its global dimension (b = 0.910, P = 0.014, r = 0.321), fear-avoidance beliefs inits work dimension (b = 1.255, P = 0.016, r = 0.321) and pain catastrophizing (b = 0.997, P =0.013, r = 0.340) show individual association with the duration of sickness absence. Kinesio-phobia (b = 0.821, P = 0.011, r = 0.30) and fear-avoidance beliefs (b = 1.760, P = 0.016, r =0.28) are associated with disability (Kinesiophobia, b = 0.880, P = 0.045, r = 0.26; Fear-avoid-ance beliefs, b = 0.724, P = 0.010, r = 0.34). Kinesiophobia, fear-avoidance beliefs and paincatastrophizing are related to an increase in the duration of work absence and disability inpatients with back pain in an occupational insurance provider context.
PB Public Library of Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2020
FD 2020-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19378
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19378
LA eng
NO Macías Toronjo, I., Rojas Ocaña, M. J., Sánchez Ramos, J. L., & García Navarro, E. B. (2020). Pain catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and fear-avoidance in non-specific work-related low-back pain as predictors of sickness absence. PLOS ONE, 15(12), e0242994. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242994
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026