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The FABQ was originally developed to assess patients' fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs.
For both subscales, a low score indicates low fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs.
The FABQ Phys assesses fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs related to general physical activities (4 items, range 0 24), and the FABQ Work assesses fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs related to occupational activities (7 items, range 0 42).
Providing advice to stay active and information about how to cope with pain has been shown to modify patients' fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs [6], [7].
Part 5 assessed GPs' fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs on the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ [5], which consists of 2 independent subscales: FABQ Phys and FABQ Work.
To evaluate GPs' fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs, we did not modify the phrasing of items but slightly adapted the first sentence of instructions to patients.
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Others mentioned that they had rated the addition of a PPI only appropriate if they considered it a clear gain of gastrointestinal safety, pointing to a different risk avoidance attitude.
The combination of the SA advice and monitoring of step counts is an inexpensive treatment to maintain or even improve daily activity, instead of embracing a pain avoidance attitude, which commonly has been observed among general practitioners [ 17– 20].
These conservative reactions are basic and normal -- they reduce anxiety -- but over time they harden into more stable and pervasive world views, which include stereotypical thinking, avoidance, prejudicial attitudes and over discrimination.
The passive avoidance coping attitude could then be sub-divided into a passive coping attitude and an avoidance (wait-and-see) coping attitude, in line with the Schreurs definition [ 90].
Many suggest that reactions such as anxiety, avoidance or negative attitudes are expected during transitions, but they may also signal early adjustment difficulties (Margetts [2005]; Prior [1996]).
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