QUALITY PROFILE OF SUPPORT BY RELATIONSHIPS AND ITS INFLUENCE IN WOMEN WITH CHRONIC MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN: MDS-BRAZIL STUDY
Perceived Social Support; Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice in Health; Biopsychosocial Model; International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health; Chronic pain.
Introduction: Women with chronic musculoskeletal pain have been affected by environmental factors such as perceived social support and the attitudes of others. According to the biopsychosocial model of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), these environmental factors can be classified as barriers or facilitators to the functionality, health and well-being of these women. Objective: To investigate the influence of environmental factors (levels of support and relationships, and attitudes of others) in women with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Method: This is a cross-sectional study of a population survey in the city of Santa Cruz/Rio Grande do Norte. The Model Disability Survey instrument (MDS-Brasil) will be used on tablets to interview 500 people, and women interviewed from 18 years of age will be included in this study, divided into two groups: a) women with chronic pain and b) women without chronic pain. Women who refuse to answer the interview, do not complete the interview and do not have the cognitive capacity to answer the questionnaire will be excluded from the study. For this study, items from the following MDS-Brasil modules will be considered: module 1000 (Sociodemographic Characteristics), module 3000A (Support and Relationships; Attitudes of Others), module 5000 (Health Conditions) and module 6000 (Use of Health Services). For the descriptive analysis of the data, simple and relative frequencies, prevalences and confidence intervals will be used. The inferential analysis of categorical variables will be performed using Chi-Square tests; continuous variables will be tested by Student's t test, Spearman's correlation coefficient or their non-parametric counterparts. Crude and adjusted regression models will be used to determine the differences between the study variable categories. The significance level to be adopted will be 5%. This research was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Committee (CEP) of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi (FACISA).