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A cross-sectional investigation of back pain beliefs and fear in physiotherapy and sport undergraduate students

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  • Cameron Black
  • Adrian Mallows
  • Sally Waterworth
  • Paul Freeman
  • Edward Hope
  • Bernard X W Liew

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Background: Although low back pain (LBP) beliefs have been well investigated in mainstream healthcare discipline students, the beliefs within sports-related study students, such as Sport and Exercise Science (SES), Sports Therapy (ST), and Sport Performance and Coaching (SPC) programmes have yet to be explored. This study aims to understand any differences in the beliefs and fear associated with movement in students enrolled in four undergraduate study programmes–physiotherapy (PT), ST, SES, and SPC. Method: 136 undergraduate students completed an online survey. All participants completed the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK) and Back Beliefs Questionnaire (BBQ). Two sets of two-way between-subjects Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were conducted for each outcome of TSK and BBQ, with the independent variables of the study programme, study year (1st, 2nd, 3rd), and their interaction. Results: There was a significant interaction between study programme and year for TSK (F(6, 124) = 4.90, P

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  • Cameron Black & Adrian Mallows & Sally Waterworth & Paul Freeman & Edward Hope & Bernard X W Liew, 2023. "A cross-sectional investigation of back pain beliefs and fear in physiotherapy and sport undergraduate students," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(4), pages 1-10, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0284754
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284754
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