title: [Health care system utilization due to low back pain: sociodemographic, pain-related and psychosocial determinants].
abstract: The study's aim was to identify associations between socio-demographic, psychosocial and pain-related factors and health care utilization due to low back pain.In this cross-sectional Survey 372 hotel employees completed standardized questionnaires to examine pain characteristics, psychosocial (working) conditions and health care use in the previous 12 months. Data was analyzed using binary logistic regression. All together 79.8% of the subjects reported low back pain in the previous 12 months and slightly more then half of them were seeking care. Significant predictors for health care use were physical functioning, frequency of pain (periodic vs. permanent) and pain-related coping.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sufferer of low back pain without consultation had significant less pain-related functional disability and tended less to mal-adaptive Coping. Work satisfaction and endurance-strategies were not associated to health care use.
authors: Institut für Psychosoziale Medizin und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Jena. Constanze.Borys@med.uni-jena.de
authors: Constanze
authors: C
authors: Borys
authors: Sabine
authors: S
authors: Wisch
authors: Dieter
authors: D
authors: Heim
authors: Bernhard
authors: B
authors: Strauß
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006295:Health Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D016015:Logistic Models; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000453:epidemiology*; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult