Personality characteristics of patients with chronic low back pain

BackgroundOne of the most common causes of referral to the doctor is low back pain. Psycho_ social factors play an important role in beginning and severity and stabilizing of this chronic disease. A lot of scientist believe there is a relationship between prevalence of chronic low back pain an personality characteristic .this study was perform to find personality characteristics of patients with chronic low back pain, to find relationship between prevalence of chronic low back pain(clbp)an personality characteristic.MethodThis descriptive study was performing on 101of clbp patients who suffer from clbp were referred to neurosurgery and orthopaedic clinic. Information were collected through MMPI2 (for find personality traits) &Mc Gill pain questionnaires, Visual analogue scale (VAS) and socio_ demographic characteristic questionnaires..The Mc gill pain questionnaires investigate four aspects (sensory-discriminative aspect of pain, an affective aspect of pain, cognitive_ evaluative aspect of pain and miscellaneous aspects of pain). And statistical analyses were performing with descriptive program and SPSS version 13 software.Results101 patients enter to this study, 46 of them were men and 55 were women. And the age mean was 45/5 years old. The severity of pain in women was higher than men .There is no relation between age and personality characteristic (P > .05),but the prevalence of hysteria and hypochondriasis were high in older patient .there is a relation between sex and personality characteristic in hysteria trait(p < /01). And patient with high score in hysteria and hypochondriasis trait had a intensive pain according to VAS (p < /01).ConclusionAs same as another studies we found hysteria and hypochondriasis as a tow factor of traits that more higher as another traits of personality. And more psychosocial factor can effect of intensity and chronicity of pain.