Back pain in Britain: comparison of two prevalence surveys at an interval of 10 years
Back pain in Britain: comparison of two prevalence surveys at an interval of 10 years
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DOI：
10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1577
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发表时间：
2000-06-10
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Coggon, D
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作者：
Palmer, KT;Walsh, K;Coggon, D
与许多其他国家一样，在英国，背痛是导致残疾的一个主要原因，尤其是在工作年龄的成年人中。在截至1993年的十年间，因背部疼痛就诊的门诊人数增加了五倍，因背部疾病丧失工作能力而领取社会保障津贴的天数增加了一倍多。目前尚不清楚这是否意味着影响背部疾病的发病率增加，或者当人们出现症状时，他们的行为会发生变化。为了解决这个问题，我们比较了相隔10年的两次邮政调查中腰痛和相关残疾的患病率。
In Britain, as in many other countries, back pain is a major cause of disability, especially in adults of working age. During the decade to 1993, outpatient attendances for back pain rose fivefold, and the number of days of incapacity from back disorders for which social security benefits were paid more than doubled. 1 It is unclear whether this represents an increase in the occurrence of diseases affecting the back or a change in people’s behaviour when they have symptoms. To address this question we compared the prevalence of low back pain and associated disability in two postal surveys 10 years apart.