Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic degenerative disease ^{[1, 2]} It accounts as the most prevalent musculoskeletal disease in the world and is the most common reason of joint disability in approximately 100 million people all over the world, in an age over 45 years ^[3] Knee joint is the most commonly affected joint both in men and women over the age of 45 years ^{[4, 5]} It is seen that men have a greater volume of knee cartilage than females, thus predisposing females to developing OA knee more frequently ^{[6, 10]} There are several risk factors which are associated with the development of OA ^{[7, 13, 14]} These can be categorised as: Modifiable and Non-modifiable ^[7] Age and gender are the strongest non-modifiable predictors ^{[7, 14]} Modifiable factors include obesity, diet, physical activity, occupation, muscle weakness ^{[7, 14]} Biomedical approach which states that physiology, leads to symptoms of OA. Unfortunately, it has been found that there is a poor correlation between pain and level of tissue damage or pathology especially in OA. Factors other than pathology of disease, may affect pain related outcomes ^{[8, 12]} The prevailing bio psycho-social model recognizes the contribution of all relevant biological psychological [stress, depression, anxiety] catastrophizing, sociological, and behavioural factors that dynamically interact with one another to generate the experience of pain and its consequences ^{[9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21]} The importance of contextual factors, in their likely effect on the outcome measures, has not been well investigated, but they appear to be crucial to developing the appropriate rehabilitation interventions ^{[9, 10, 18, 19]}

Objective

1.       To find the influence of socioeconomic status on physical activity and kinesiophobia in osteoarthritis patients.

2.       To find the influence of occupation on physical activity and kinesiophobia in osteoarthritis patients.

3.       To find the influence of stress on physical activity and kinesiophobia in osteoarthritis patients.

Methodology

§  Ethical clearance was obtained from institutional ethical committee.

§  Patients from different socioeconomic strata who were attending physiotherapy OPD in various hospitals and community were included based on inclusion and exclusion criteria.

§  Participant information sheet was provided and written consent was taken from patients who were included.

§  Patient’s demographic data was recorded. Patients were also asked about occupation, in brief about their pain.

§  Patients with cognitive impairment were excluded by using MOCA scale.

§  Those included were assessed by using Kuppuswamy Scale for socioeconomic status, Perceived Stress scale for Stress, Lower Extremity Function Scale for lower extremity function, TAMPA scale for kinesiophobia.

Result: total 77 Patients were assessed by using Kuppuswamy, LEFS, TAMPA scale. statistical analysis is done by using chi square test.