Issue release date: 12.11.2024
2Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Kartal Training and Research Hospital, Neurosurgery Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey
3Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Neurosurgery Clinic, Bursa, Turkey
4Yüksek İhtisas University, Ankara, Turkey DOI : 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.19318-16.2 AIM: To investigate the correlation of the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) anxiety, depression, and somatization subscale scores with chronic low back pain (LBP).
MATERIAL and METHODS: Seventy-five patients who were admitted with the complaint of chronic LBP (patient group) and 75 healthy persons (control group) were evaluated. SCL-90-R anxiety, depression, and somatization subscale scores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons were measured. The mean values were paired and using two tailed t test they were statistically evaluated.
RESULTS: The difference between SCL-90-R anxiety subscale subscores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons was not statistically significant (p>0.05). The difference between SCL-90-R depression subscale subscores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons was not statistically significant (p>0.05). The difference between SCL-90-R somatization subscale subscores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons was statistically significant (p<0.05).
CONCLUSION: SCL-90-R somatization subscale subscores are higher in patients with low back pain. The treatment of low back pain can be more successful when combined with the treatment of somatization.
Keywords : Anxiety, Depression, Low back pain, SCL-90-R, Somatization