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| Title |
Postural awareness and its relation to pain: validation of an innovative instrument measuring awareness of body posture in patients with chronic pain
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| Published in |
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12891-018-2031-9 |
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| Authors |
Holger Cramer, Wolf E. Mehling, Felix J. Saha, Gustav Dobos, Romy Lauche |
| Abstract |
Habitual postural patterns are associated with musculoskeletal pain, and improving a maladaptive posture requires postural awareness in order to lead to clinical improvements. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of an innovative postural awareness scale. A 12-item Postural Awareness Scale (PAS) was developed and administered to 512 chronic pain patients (50.3 ± 11.4 years, 91.6% female, 37.1% spinal/shoulder pain) to assess its factor structure and reliability. To determine convergent validity, measures of body awareness, body responsiveness, body image, and mindfulness were correlated with the PAS, as were clinical measures of pain intensity, disability, and mental health. Sensitivity to change was assessed in 202 outpatients participating in a 10-week multimodal mind-body program. Factor analysis revealed two factors (Ease/Familiarity with Postural Awareness and Need for Attention Regulation with Postural Awareness) that explained 50.8% of the variance. Cronbach's alpha for the complete scale was 0.80; Spearman-Brown coefficient of split-half reliability was 0.67; and intra-class correlation was ICC2,1 = 0.75 (95% confidence interval = 0.71, 0.78). Significant positive correlations were found for body awareness (r = 0.23), body responsiveness (r = 0.41), body image (r = 0.22-0.32), and mindfulness (r = 0.38); negative correlations for pain intensity (r = - 0.14), disability (r = - 0.12), depression (r = - 0.23), and stress (r = - 0.29). Postural awareness scores increased with a mind-body program (p < 0.001); changes in the PAS were negatively correlated with changes in pain intensity (r = - 0.35) in patients with spinal/shoulder pain. Self-reported postural awareness is associated with clinical symptoms in chronic pain patients; improvements in postural awareness are longitudinally associated with reduced pain in patients with spinal/shoulder pain. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 8 | 31% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Sweden | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Greece | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 14 | 54% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 24 | 92% |
| Scientists | 1 | 4% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 273 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 273 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 54 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 5% |
| Researcher | 12 | 4% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 4% |
| Other | 38 | 14% |
| Unknown | 112 | 41% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 58 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 9% |
| Sports and Recreations | 21 | 8% |
| Engineering | 11 | 4% |
| Psychology | 10 | 4% |
| Other | 32 | 12% |
| Unknown | 116 | 42% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 311. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2023.
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#109,203
of 25,354,251 outputs
Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#9
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#2,668
of 336,039 outputs
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#2
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