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Journal article
Life satisfaction and musculoskeletal complaints in a population seeking osteopathy care: consecutive sample of 611 patients
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, Vol.28, pp.1-7
11/03/2020
PMCID: PMC7065312
PMID: 32156310
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Abstract
Background: Life satisfaction is a component of the subjective well-being construct. Research consistently suggests that life satisfaction is associated with enhanced social benefits and improved health outcomes. However, its relationship to musculoskeletal health outcomes is underexplored. This study evaluates the life satisfaction of a patient population presenting with musculoskeletal complaints, and the relationship of life satisfaction with other health demographics and behaviours.
Method: The study used a consecutive sampling design. Patients attending the Victoria University Osteopathy Clinic (Melbourne, Australia) were invited to complete the PROMIS® General Life Satisfaction scale (GLSS) along with questions related to health demographics and behaviours.
Results: The GLSS T-score was not significantly different for gender, being born outside of Australia, speaking English at home, or complaint chronicity.
Conclusions: Life satisfaction did not appear to be related to a range of health and demographic variables in the current musculoskeletal pain cohort. The PROMIS® General Life Satisfaction scale could prove useful to explore the relationship between life satisfaction and treatment outcomes for musculoskeletal complaints.
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- Title
- Life satisfaction and musculoskeletal complaints in a population seeking osteopathy care: consecutive sample of 611 patients
- Creators
- Brett Vaughan - Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. brett.vaughan@unimelb.edu.auJane Mulcahy - College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaThomas Allen - College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaEmi Coupe - College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaDavid Gobbo - College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaLeila Nasser - College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaKaren Pain - College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaKylie Fitzgerald - Independent Researcher, Melbourne, Australia
- Publication Details
- Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, Vol.28, pp.1-7
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Identifiers
- 991012958196602368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Academic Unit
- Allied Health and Midwifery; Faculty of Health; School of Health and Human Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article