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Over-indebtedness and its association with the prevalence of back pain

BACKGROUND: Over-indebtedness is an increasing phenomenon worldwide. Massive financial strain, as found in over-indebted persons, might influence the occurrence of back pain. In this explorative study we examined the prevalence of back pain in over-indebted persons in Germany for the first time ever...

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Autores principales: Ochsmann, Elke B, Rueger, Heiko, Letzel, Stephan, Drexler, Hans, Muenster, Eva
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19961624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-451
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author Ochsmann, Elke B
Rueger, Heiko
Letzel, Stephan
Drexler, Hans
Muenster, Eva
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Rueger, Heiko
Letzel, Stephan
Drexler, Hans
Muenster, Eva
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description BACKGROUND: Over-indebtedness is an increasing phenomenon worldwide. Massive financial strain, as found in over-indebted persons, might influence the occurrence of back pain. In this explorative study we examined the prevalence of back pain in over-indebted persons in Germany for the first time ever and compared it to the prevalence of back pain in the German general population. METHODS: A cross sectional study comprising 949 participants (52.6% women) was conducted to collect data on the point prevalence of back pain in an over-indebted collective. A representative sample of the German general population (N = 8318, 53.4% women) was used as non-indebted reference group. RESULTS: The point prevalence of back pain was 80% in the over-indebted collective, compared to 20% in the general population. The influence of socioeconomic factors on the prevalence of back pain differed partially between the general population and the over-indebted collective. Being over-indebted was identified as an independent effect modifier and was associated with an eleven times increased probability to suffer from back pain (aOR: 10.92, 95%CI: 8.96 - 13.46). CONCLUSION: Until now, only little is known about the effects of intense financial strain like over-indebtedness on health. Our study suggests that over-indebted persons represent a risk group for back pain and that it might be sensible to take financial strain into account when taking a medical history on back pain. Over-indebtedness and private bankruptcy is of increasing importance in industrialized countries, therefore more research on the subject seems to be necessary.
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spelling pubmed-27978002009-12-25 Over-indebtedness and its association with the prevalence of back pain Ochsmann, Elke B Rueger, Heiko Letzel, Stephan Drexler, Hans Muenster, Eva BMC Public Health Research article BACKGROUND: Over-indebtedness is an increasing phenomenon worldwide. Massive financial strain, as found in over-indebted persons, might influence the occurrence of back pain. In this explorative study we examined the prevalence of back pain in over-indebted persons in Germany for the first time ever and compared it to the prevalence of back pain in the German general population. METHODS: A cross sectional study comprising 949 participants (52.6% women) was conducted to collect data on the point prevalence of back pain in an over-indebted collective. A representative sample of the German general population (N = 8318, 53.4% women) was used as non-indebted reference group. RESULTS: The point prevalence of back pain was 80% in the over-indebted collective, compared to 20% in the general population. The influence of socioeconomic factors on the prevalence of back pain differed partially between the general population and the over-indebted collective. Being over-indebted was identified as an independent effect modifier and was associated with an eleven times increased probability to suffer from back pain (aOR: 10.92, 95%CI: 8.96 - 13.46). CONCLUSION: Until now, only little is known about the effects of intense financial strain like over-indebtedness on health. Our study suggests that over-indebted persons represent a risk group for back pain and that it might be sensible to take financial strain into account when taking a medical history on back pain. Over-indebtedness and private bankruptcy is of increasing importance in industrialized countries, therefore more research on the subject seems to be necessary. BioMed Central 2009-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2797800/ /pubmed/19961624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-451 Text en Copyright ©2009 Ochsmann et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Drexler, Hans
Muenster, Eva
Over-indebtedness and its association with the prevalence of back pain
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title_short Over-indebtedness and its association with the prevalence of back pain
title_sort over-indebtedness and its association with the prevalence of back pain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19961624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-451
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