Life satisfaction and musculoskeletal complaints in a population seeking osteopathy care: consecutive sample of 611 patients Our study suggests that the mean life satisfaction of those presenting for musculoskeletal care at an osteopathy student-led clinic is slightly higher than the American population – the available reference population for the measures used. This study is also the first to describe life satisfaction in a population seeking osteopathy care using a multi-item measure. As such, the data could be used for comparisons with future work into the associations with life satisfaction, mental health, physical health, pain severity and health status in musculoskeletal care. With respect to health behaviours, demographics and clinical presentation, the present study showed no relationship between pain location, pain severity and life satisfaction. This may in part be accounted for by the younger and less chronic cohort, compared to previous chronic pain literature which did report an association between the two. Further work to explore the administrative burden of the measure in addition to the relationship of life satisfaction with clinical outcomes is now required and the current study could serve as a basis for this. The GLSS appears to have a degree of utility as a measure of life satisfaction that is readily available to clinicians and researchers.
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