摘要：Purpose: Assessment of pain intensity in patients with chronic low back pain in correlation with the clinical picture and illness acceptance. Material and methods: The study group included 120 patients (67 males and 53 females) aged 43.07 ± 8.74 years (range: 18 – 62 years) diagnosed with lumbosacral spine discopathy. The study was conducted between 2008 - 2010. Assessment tools used for the study included: pain intensity scale and Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS). Results: Most often the pain was reported in the L4-L5 level of the lumbar spine. The duration of the illness ranged between 1-31 years (6.90 ± 6.47). The majority of the patients in the studied group were physical workers. Nearly half of the patients, 59 (49.16%) described their pain as moderate on a 5-point pain scale. No acceptance of illness according to the AIS scale was noted in 33 (27.5%) patients, the remaining 67 (72.5%) patients declared quite good and average good illness acceptance. We found no significant dependencies of the frequency of pain occurrence, pain intensity, its duration and the type of work. Conclusions: Pain reported due to chronic low back pain by the majority of the patients was of moderate intensity. No correlation was found between the pain and illness acceptance
