The Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors Affecting Pain Perception and Physical Activity Level in Pregnant Women With Lumbopelvic Pain

Uskudar University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Investigate the Relationship Between the Psychosocial Factors Affecting Pain Perception and Physical Activity Levels in Pregnant Women With Lumbopelvic Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05418738

Uskudar University

Details and patient eligibility

About

Lumbopelvic pain (LPP) is a common condition encountered during pregnancy. During pregnancy, 50% of women experience LPP. This study was planned to show the relationship between psychosocial factors affecting the perception of pain such as pregnancy-related psychosocial factors, pregnancy-related distress, catastrophization and pain self-efficacy and physical activity level in pregnant women with lumbopelvic pain. This study was conducted using the questionnaires.

Full description

In pregnant women with lumbopelvic pain, physical activity during pregnancy has many positive effects on both maternal and infant health. Therefore, it is necessary to know the factors affecting physical activity during pregnancy and make arrangements regarding these factors. This study was planned to reveal the relationship between pregnancy-related psychosocial factors, pregnancy-related distress, catastrophizing, and pain self-efficacy, which affect pain perception, and physical activity level in pregnant women with lumbopelvic pain. The study was conducted with 60 pregnant women who met the inclusion criteria. This study was conducted using the questionnaires prepared in the electronic environment and sent to the participants. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the psychosocial factors affecting pain perception and physical activity levels in pregnant women with LPP.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women between the ages of 18-45, who had pain in the lumbopelvic region for more than a week, who had pain between 1-10 according to the VAS, who could read and understand Turkish, who were in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, and who did not exercise regularly before pregnancy were included in this cross-sectional and descriptive study.

Exclusion criteria

• having pregnancy complications (preeclampsia, pregnancy-related hypertension, diabetes, etc.), having gynecological or urological problems leading to pain during pregnancy, and having a history of acute or chronic disease, surgical intervention and trauma in the musculoskeletal or nervous system.