Abstract:
Objective To analyze the mediating effect of pain self-efficacy between fear avoidance beliefs and exercise attitudes in middle-aged and young patients with lumbar disc herniation(LDH).
Methods Using a cross-sectional study design, 305 middle-aged and young LDH patients were selected.The patients were assessed using the self-designed general information scale, Exercise Attitude Scale(EAS), Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire(PSEQ) and Fear Avoidance Beliefs Scale(FABQ).Pearson correlation analysis was used to explore the correlations among various variables.The mediation effect model was constructed by using linear regression, and the fitting effect of the model was verified.
Results The FABQ score of LDH patients was (55.31±19.01), the PSEQ score was (35.33±10.28), and the EAS score was (198.33±32.99).There was a negative correlation between fear avoidance and pain self-efficacy and exercise attitude in young and middle-aged LDH patients(r=-0.117, P < 0.01;r=-0.052, P < 0.05), and a positive correlation between pain self-efficacy and exercise attitude(r=0.390, P < 0.01).The pain self-efficacy of young and middle-aged LDH patients played a partial mediating effect between fear avoidance beliefs and exercise attitude(Effect value: -0.042, 95%CI: -0.078~0.004), and the mediating effect accounted for 51.34% of the total effect.
Conclusions Young and middle-aged LDH patients′ exercise attitude is at a low level, the fear avoidance belief is at a high level, and the pain self-efficacy is at a low level.The pain self-efficacy has a positive effect on exercise attitude.