Abstract:
Objective: The present study aimed to compare prospective and retrospective memory
impairment and attention deficit in people suffering from chronic low back pain with those
cognitive functions in healthy subjects. Furthermore, this study examines the relation between
severity and duration of pain and prospective and retrospective memory impairment and
attention deficit.
Methods: The research was a causality-comparative study. Using convenience sampling
method, 53 male patients and 53 healthy male individuals were selected. The participants were
asked to fill out prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire and pain numeric rating
scale (NRS). In addition, a continuous performance test was performed. The study hypotheses
were tested using two independent group T-test and the Pearson correlation analysis by SPSS
22 with the significant level of 0.05.
Results: The results showed that there was significant difference between the 2 groups of
participants regarding prospective memory, but no significant difference regarding retrospective
memory. With respect to hypotheses, significant difference was found between the two groups
regarding attention. And finally results of the study did not show any relation between duration
and intensity of pain with impairment in prospective and retrospective memory and attention.
Conclusion: The prospective memory impairment and attention deficits are associated with
chronic low back pain. In general, chronic pain is associated with cognitive impairment.
Machine summary:
"Comparison of Prospective and Retrospective Memory and Attention in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain with Healthy People Mehdi Mehraban Eshtehardi 1, Hassan Shams Esfandabad 2*, Peyman Hassani Abharian 3 1.
Furthermore, this study examines the relation between severity and duration of pain and prospective and retrospective memory impairment and attention deficit.
The present study investigates the status of prospective and retrospective memory impairment (amnesia) and atten- tion deficit on daily life of patients with chronic pains.
Crawford, Maylor, Della Sala, and Logie (2003) tested prospective retrospective memory questionnaire (PRQM) using a large study group of 551 members aged 17-94 years.
As shown in the Table 4, the Pearson correlation test results indicate that there is no relation between pain’s severity or duration and prospective and retrospective memory impairments and attention deficits.
4. Discussion This study aimed to examine the effects of chronic low back pain on retrospective and prospective memory and attention and also the relation between severity and du- ration of pain and these cognitive impairments.
They studied the effect of chronic low back pain on pro- spective memory and showed that there was significant difference between healthy and patient groups.
Our result did not show any significant difference between patient and healthy group regarding the error responses and also our result did not show any relation between severity and duration of Pain with pro- spective and retrospective memory impairment and atten- tion deficit which can be studied more in further studies."