Psychosocial factors and low back pain among college students
From: J Am Coll Health. 2008 Sep-Oct;57(2):191-6.
The authors evaluated psychosocial factors of stress and their effects on the prevalence of low back pain among a population of college students in a major university in Colorado. This was a nested cross-sectional study of 973 respondents who completed the National College Health Assessment survey. The authors evaluated a subset of questions pertaining to psychosocial stressors against the presence of low back pain. Results: The annual prevalence of low back pain among the population studied was 42.8%. The stressful psychosocial variables of feeling very sad, exhausted, and overwhelmed were associated with the prevalence of low back pain. The prevalence of low back pain among this younger population is significant and understudied.
