Background: Low back pain is one of the important patients’
presenting complain that requires expert
management from the physiotherapists. Yet no work was available for reference
on the use of outcome measures for its evaluation by Nigeria physiotherapists. Objective: This study,
therefore, investigated the outcome measures used by Nigerian physiotherapists to evaluate patients
with Low Back Pain and the factors that influenced their use. Methods: A survey questionnaire was posted to 306 randomly selected mem- bersof the Nigeria Society of
Physiotherapy (NSP). Data were analyzed using frequency, percentages, mean, ANOVA, and Pearson’s Chi-square. P-value was placed at 0.05. Results: 52.9% of the
respondents (221) used a pain visual analog scale. Only 36.1% used LBP-specific clinical outcome
measures. The factors that influenced their use were belief, attitude,
knowledge, and choice. There was no significant difference between the majority
of the factors and the use of clinical outcome measures. The P-values were 0.960, 0.648,
0.760 for belief, attitude and knowledge
respectively. The
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