[Health care system utilization due to low back pain: sociodemographic, pain-related and psychosocial determinants]. / Inanspruchnahme medizinischer Versorgung bei Rückenschmerzen: soziodemografische, schmerzbezogene und psychosoziale Determinanten.

UNLABELLED: The study's aim was to identify associations between socio-demographic, psychosocial and pain-related factors and health care utilization due to low back pain.In this cross-sectional Survey 372 hotel employees completed standardized questionnaires to examine pain characteristics, psychosocial (working) conditions and health care use in the previous 12 months. Data was analyzed using binary logistic regression. All together 79.8% of the subjects reported low back pain in the previous 12 months and slightly more then half of them were seeking care. Significant predictors for health care use were physical functioning, frequency of pain (periodic vs. permanent) and pain-related coping. CONCLUSIONS: Sufferer of low back pain without consultation had significant less pain-related functional disability and tended less to mal-adaptive Coping. Work satisfaction and endurance-strategies were not associated to health care use.