Journal de la douleur et du soulagement

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Assessment of Pain Behavior and Pain Related Distress in Palestinian Musculoskeletal Disorder Patients

Wael Mustafa Abuhassan* and Mosab Salem Amoudi

The present research work aims to investigate the pain behavior and pain distress in musculoskeletal disorders
(MSDs) as well to explore to how much extent does gender, age, and body weight do contribute to MSDs. Main
hypothesis was: "There are no statistical differences in the levels of pain and pain distress in musculoskeletal disorders
in relation to gender, age, and body weight." Researchers used the descriptive analytical approach, mainly cross
- sectional approaches, where a total sample of 60 subjects was randomly selected, and data was collected via
assessment of self-reporting procedures. After data was collected and coded, SPSS-20 was utilized to analyze what
coded to extract means, standard deviations as well as inferential values. All such values were calculated to answer
the set research question (s) and hypothesis (es). Results were obtained to show that studied groups reported a
severe pain behavior (Mean: 2.3717; Std. Deviation: 42470) and severe pain distress issues (Mean: 1.6200; Std.
Deviation: .24550) in musculoskeletal disorder patients. Further, statistical comparisons showed that there are no
significant statistical differences in the levels of pain behavior and pain distress at the level of significance (α=0.05)
that could be attributed to gender, age, and body weight. All this may lead to the conclusion that MSDs have negative
physical and psychological effects on those who suffer them as vis-a-vis pain behavior and pain distress outcomes
may contribute to the same, irrespective of gender, age and body weight.