Depresión asociada a dolor lumbar subagudo en pacientes adultos

To demonstrate whether depression is associated with subacute low back pain in adult patients. Material and methods: Observational, cross-sectional analytical study. Non- probabilistic sampling, a sample size of 303 patients of the Physical Medicine service of the Victor Lazarte Echegaray Trujillo Hospital according to the selection criteria, thus contacting 2 groups: patients with subacute low back pain and patients without this pathology in which the presence of Depression through the Beck Depression Inventory; applying the prevalence odds ratio and the chi- square statistical test. Results: Subacute low back pain was present in 50.5% of the sample; In patients with subacute low back pain the prevalence of depression was 61.4% and in the control group it was 14.0%. In the bivariate analysis, Depression is associated with subacute low back pain in adults with a p-value of 0.000 and a relative risk of 9.79 [5,57-17,21]; thus they were statistically statistical: low economic income (p = 0.002), educational level not higher (p = 0.002 and ORc = 2.08); Regular drinker (p = 0.043 and ORc = 1.86) and Smoking (p = 0.000 and ORc = 2.39. In the multivariate analysis it was verified that depression (p = 0.000 and an OR of 9.565); educational level not higher (p = 0.042 and OR of 1,740) and habitual drinker (p = 0.021 and an OR of 2,253) had statistical significance. Conclusions: Depression is associated with subacute low back pain in adult patients as well as low economic income, no higher educational level, drinking alcohol and smoking.