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Coping and Disability: Evidence from a Developing Country

Slim et al.

Country: Lebanon

Classification: Movement

Year of Publication: 2011


Study Type:
Quantitative Study

Sample Size:
200

The Research party:
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Main Idea or Research Questions:
This paper examines how good coping links to musculoskeletal-related disability among Lebanese citizens aged 15 years and older. The paper also examines the relative contribution of the covariates that have been found to affect the relationship of coping and functional disability, such as socio-demographic variables, pain intensity, pain chronicity, number of pain sites and body mass index (BMI).

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