Objective: To find the frequency and severity of insomnia in chronic low back pain patients. Methodology: The data were collected from 358 patients from different government hospitals suffering from chronic low back pain at least from three months. A questionnaire and insomnia severity index were used to measure the severity. Statistical work was done by SPSS software.
Results: The study included 358 patients, out of which 210 (58.6%) had insomnia and 148 (41.3%) had no insomnia. Out of those 58.6%, only 2.85% had no clinically significant insomnia, 61.9% had sub-threshold insomnia and 35.2 had moderate insomnia and majority faced the sleep disturbance at mid of the night almost every night.
Conclusion: Frequency and severity of insomnia in chronic low back pain was high.
Bakhtawar Majid, Mohammad Asim Arif, Rabia Saeed, Ashfaq Ahmad, Mehreen Fatima. (2017) Frequency and severity of insomnia in chronic low back pain, , Volume-42, Issue-4.
