*Departamento Científico, Fundación Kovacs, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
†Spanish Back Pain Research Network, Fundación Kovacs, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
‡Servicio de Ginecología y Obstetricia, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain
§CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
¶Unidad de Bioestadística Clínica, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain
‖Servicio de Ginecología y Obstetricia, Hospital Universitari Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
**Other members of the Spanish Back Pain Research who authored this study, are:
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Francisco M. Kovacs, MD, PhD, Departamento Científico, Fundación Kovacs, Paseo Mallorca 36, 3º, 1º, 07012 Palma de Mallorca, Spain; E-mail: [email protected]
Jesús Seco Calvo (Departamento de Enfermería y Fisioterapia, Instituto de Biomedicina (IBIOMED), Universidad de León, Ponferrada, Spain), Lucía Zamora Delmás (PASSIR, CAP Numancia, Barcelona, Spain); Catalina Serra Calafat (C. S. Llucmajor, Llucmajor, Spain); Esther Montoliu‖; Saturnina Cillero Carrera‖; Carmen Piorno Hernández (PASSIR, CAP Manso, Barcelona, Spain); Ma José Pons Martínez‖; María José Pita (Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain); Alfonso Muriel§¶; María Nieves Plana§¶; Javier Zamora§¶; Concha Manzanares Mir (C. S. Rafal Nou, Palma, Spain); Francisca Llinás Alzina (C .S. Andratx, Andratx, Spain); Consuelo Fernández Yagüe (C.S. Campos, Campos, Spain); Sergio Giménez Basallote (C. S. El Limonar, Málaga, Spain); Anna Payaró Llisterri (PASSIR, CAP Numància, Barcelona, Spain); María Antonia Villalón Vidal (PASSIR, CAP Adrià, Barcelona, Spain); Luis Álvarez Galovich (Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain); Ma Teresa de Juan Socías (C.S. Camp Redó, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Marián García Baratas (C.S. Son Pisá, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); María Maimó (C. S. Escorxador, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Julia Cid Vaquero (PASSIR, CAP Manso, Barcelona, Spain); Eva Picola Isern (PASSIR, CAP Manso, Barcelona, Spain); Esther Crespo Mirasol (PASSIR, CAP Adrià, Barcelona, Spain); Begoña Carral (PASSIR, C. S. Castell, Castelldefels, Spain); Sara Tornel Fabré (PASSIR, CAP Adrià, Barcelona, Spain); Alicia Martínez Navarro (PASSIR, CAP Manso, Barcelona, Spain); Mathew Taylor (C.S. Santa Catalina, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Ma Anselma Blanco García (C. S. Son Serra/La vileta, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Michelle Della Volte (ASSIR, C. S. Castell, Castelldefels, Spain); Encarnación Casas‖; Francisco V. Martínez García (Atención Primaria, C.S. Ponferrada III, Ponferrada, Spain); Lina Álvarez Olivares‖; Esther Recarte Ortega (Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain); Cristina Braña Pelayo (Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain); Gloria Colina Valero (PASSIR, CAP Numancia, Barcelona, Spain); Carolina Vesga González‖; Paz Nadal Casasnovas‖; Inmaculada Sauquillo‖; Sylvia Miralles (C. S. Son Rullán, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Ma Dolores Basté Portabella (PASSIR, C. S. Castell, Castelldefels, Spain); Catalina Torrens Grau (C.S. Valldargent, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Leovigildo Ginel (C.S. Ciudad Jardín, Málaga, Spain); Inés Hernández‖; Isabel Coca Camín (PASSIR, CAP Numancia, Barcelona, Spain); Ma Ana Garcés (C. S. Pedro Garau, Palma de Mallorca, Spain); Carmen Seguí Santana (PASSIR, CAP Numancia, Barcelona, Spain); Matilde Cifre Gómez‖; Carmen Bilbao Artal‖; M Magdalena Nadal Riera‖; Catalina Tomás Fornari‖; Mercedes Torrecilla Mozo‖; Elisabet Grau Civit (PASSIR, CAP Manso, Barcelona, Spain); Ana M de la Zerda‖; Ana Belén Castel Seguí‖; Mirian Trujillo Rodríguez (PASSIR, CAP Adrià, Barcelona, Spain); Cynthia Martínez‖; M Elena Montes de Oca Arjona‖; Ilaria Bianchi (PASSIR, CAP Manso, Barcelona, Spain); Jenny Moix (Departamento de Psicología Básica, Evolutiva y de la Educación. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Bellaterra. Spain), Francisca Rebassa Cantallops‖; Joana Amengual‖; Mercedes Genovés‖; Ma Elena Castellanos Fernández (PASSIR, CAP Manso, C/de Manso 19, 08015 Barcelona, Spain), Mario Gestoso.*†
Acknowledgment date: July 25, 2011. First revision date: December 11, 2011. Acceptance date: January 31, 2012.
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
Foundation funds were received to support this work.
No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript.