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We aimed to examine the prevalence of anxiety, depression, disability, alexithymia, insomnia, and sleep quality in patients having chronic low back pain (LBP) and study their association with the severity of pain and any disability arising from it.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Methods This descriptive study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching hospital setting. Fifty adults with nonspecific LBP of &gt; 6-week duration were included. Study instruments employed were patient health questionnaire-9 for depression, generalized anxiety disorder-7 for anxiety, visual analogue scale (VAS) score for pain, Oswestry disability index (ODI) to assess disability, Toronto alexithymia scale-20 for alexithymia, and insomnia severity index and Pittsburgh sleep quality index for insomnia. Descriptive results were expressed as numbers, means, and proportions. Association study between variables was performed using Fisher\u2019s exact test.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Results Mean ODI score was 31.54% (95% CI, 26.09\u201336.99); mean VAS score was 6.08 (95% CI, 5.35\u20136.81). Insomnia of varying severity was found in 29 patients. Sleep quality was reported as good by 23 patients. One patient had alexithymia. There was significant association between the level of disability and depression, anxiety, insomnia, and sleep quality. The severity of pain had significant association with insomnia but the association with anxiety, depression, alexithymia, and sleep quality was not significant.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Conclusions Patients with chronic LBP do have associated psychological comorbidities of varying extent. A \u201cpatient-centric\u201d approach when treating patients with chronic LBP is necessary, so that appropriate evaluation of psychiatric and psychosocial comorbidities, sleep problems, and quality of life is done as part of their routine management to ensure the desired outcomes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0041-1734385","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,6]],"date-time":"2021-09-06T23:24:41Z","timestamp":1630970681000},"page":"145-151","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["Do Patients of Chronic Low Back Pain have Psychological Comorbidities?"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Kritika","family":"Singhal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Krishna Prasad","family":"Muliyala","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, 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