Introduction: Little is known about the effect of beliefs on whiplash-associated disorders.
Objective: To assess population beliefs regarding whiplash injury, to assess expectation as a predictor of recovery; to explore symptom attribution (Study III); and, assess the relationship between the Whiplash Disability Questionnaire (WDQ) and self-assessed recovery.
Materials and Methods: Canadian residents were surveyed about whiplash injury; a whiplash cohort was assessed for association between expectations of recovery and recovery; whiplash patients were examined to correlate auditory symptoms and cerumen occlusion; and, Whiplash patients were asked a global recovery question and results compared to the whiplash Disability Questionnaire (WDQ).
Results: Beliefs about whiplash injury were more negative. Expectations of recovery from injury increases the recovery rate. Cerumen explains auditory symptoms in whiplash patients. Patients responding yes to the recovery question had a low WDQ score.
Conclusions: Population beliefs, expectations of recovery and symptom attribution are important in whiplash-associated disorders. / Experimental Medicine
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1197 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Ferrari, Robert |
| Contributors | Carroll, Linda J. (Public Health Sciences), Russell, Anthony S. (Department of Rheumatic Diseases), McAlister, Finlay (Department of Medicine), Davis, Paul (Department of Rheumatic Diseases), Carroll, Linda J. (Public Health Sciences), Russell, Anthony S. (Department of Rheumatic Diseases), McAlister, Finlay (Department of Medicine), Davis, Paul (Department of Rheumatic Diseases), Homik, Joanne (Department of Rheumatic Diseases) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 18021812 bytes, application/pdf |
| Relation | Bostick GP, Ferrari R, Carroll LJ, Russell AS, Buchbinder R, Krawciw D, Gross DP. A population-based survey of beliefs about neck pain from whiplash injury, work-related neck pain, and work-related upper extremity pain. European Journal of Pain 2009;13:300-304., Carroll LJ, Holm L, Ferrari R, Ozegovic D, Cassidy JD. Recovery in whiplash-associated disorders: do you get what you expect? Journal of Rheumatology 2009; 36:1063-70., Ferrari R. Auditory symptoms in whiplash patients - could earwax occlusion be a benign cause? Australian Family Physician. 2006;35:367-368., Ferrari R, Russell AS, Kelly AJ. Assessing whiplash recovery - the Whiplash Disability Questionnaire. Australian Family Physician 2006;35:653-654. |
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