ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PAIN ACCEPTANCE AND SELF REPORTED QUALITY OF LIFE IN SUBJECTS WITH CHRONIC MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN : A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Painacceptance, as a psychological component, has a role in chronic pain especiallyin chronic musculoskeletal pain. The role of acceptance  in determining the quality of life in chroniclow back pain cases  was studied and itwas found that acceptance was found to be positively associated withself-reported quality of life. Furthermore, the authors concludedthat activity engagement and pain willingness may influence different subjectiveinterpretations of quality of life in each chronic pain population, and thisshould be systematically investigated. Although this study focused on subjectswith low back pain, no other study has found the association between painacceptance and quality of life in other musculoskeletal pain conditions.Therefore, a need arises to confirm the findings of the association of painacceptance with self-reported quality of life in subjects with chronicmusculoskeletal pain. Understanding the role of pain acceptance on the qualityof life of individuals is imperative so that effective acceptance based rehabilitationprograms are introduced and directed towards the management of chronicmusculoskeletal pain.