Fibromyalgia & musculoskeletal pain
Predictors of return to work after multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for patients with chronic low back pain
Study context
- Population
- Patients with chronic low back pain struggling to maintain their job who followed a full-time one-month multidisciplinary rehabilitation program (multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs (MRP)), January 2015 to December 2020
- Participants
- 251 patients
- Outcome
- Baseline predictors of return to work after the MRP
Methodological detailsmonocentric, bivariate and multivariate analysis
- Monocentric
- Bivariate and multivariate analysis
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Baseline factors associated with return to work after the MRP
- Multivariate analysis: having worked in the past 6 months associated with return to work
- Multivariate analysis: absence of high fear-avoidance beliefs at work at baseline associated with return to work
- Bivariate analysis: professional status, duration off work, intensity of low back pain, self-perceived disability and fear-avoidance beliefs at work associated with return to work
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Predictors of return to work after multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for patients with chronic low back pain. Joint Bone Spine. Published 26 December 2024. doi:10.
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