Table 3.
Consequences of spinal pain
| Consequence of spinal pain | All (N = 457) | Spinal pain severity lifetime (missing values N = 68/14.9%) |
Spinal pain severity last week (missing values N = 43/9.4%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No pain (N = 188/48.3%) |
One-sited moderate pain (N = 78/20.1%) |
One-sited severe / multiple moderate / multiple severe pain (N = 123/31.6%) |
p-value | No pain (N = 301/72.7%) | One-sited moderate pain (N = 57/13.8%) | One-sited severe / multiple moderate / multiple severe pain (N = 56/13.5%) |
p-value | ||
|
Self-rated health Good or fair or poor/ Excellent or very good (%) |
100/340 (22.7%/77.3%) 17 missing values |
28/153 (15.5%/84.5%) 7 missing values |
17/61 (21.8%/78.2%) 0 missing values |
46/76 37.7%/62.3%) 1 missing value |
< 0.001 |
54/241 (18.3%/81.7%) 6 missing values |
16/41 (28.1%/71.9%) 0 missing values |
25/30 (45.5%/55.5%) 1 missing value |
< 0.001 |
|
Impact of spinal pain on health Yes/No (%) |
69/318 (17.8%/82.2%) 70 missing values |
6a/144 (4.0%/96.0/%) 38 missing values |
9/62 (12.7%/87.3%) 7 missing values |
48/74 (39.3%/60.7%) 1 missing value |
< 0.001 |
16a/237 (6.3%/93.7%) 48 missing values |
15/40 (27.3%/72.7%) 2 missing values |
30/25 (54.5%/45.5%) 1 missing value |
< 0.001 |
|
Seeking medical advice because of spinal pain Yes/No (%) |
48/370 (11.5%/88.5%) 39 missing values |
4/166 (2.4%/97.6%) 18 missing values |
6/69 (8.0%/92.0%) 3 missing values |
36/82 (30.5%/69.5%) 5 missing values |
< 0.001 |
11/267 (4.0%/96.0%) 23 missing values |
11/44 (20.0%/80.0%) 2 missing values |
24/31 (43.6%/56.4%) 1 missing value |
< 0.001 |
|
School absenteeism because of spinal pain Yes/No (%) |
4/441 (0.9%/99.1%) 12 missing values |
0/185 (0.0%/100.0%) 3 missing values |
0/77 (0.0%/100.0%) 1 missing value |
4/118 (3.3%/96.7%) 1 missing value |
b |
3/298 (1.0%/99.0%) 3 missing values |
1/56 (1.8%/98.2%) 0 missing values |
2/54 (3.6%/96.4%) 0 missing values |
b |
|
Sports absenteeism because of spinal pain Yes/No (%) |
11/414 (2.6%/97.4%) 32 missing values |
1/171 (0.6%/99.4%) 16 missing values |
0/75 (0.0%/100.0%) 3 missing values |
10/112 (8.2%/91.8%) 1 missing value |
b |
2/279 (0.7%/99.3%) 20 missing values |
4/53 (7.0%/93.0%) 0 missing values |
3/52 (5.5%/94.5%) 1 missing value |
b |
aThere can be an impact of spinal pain on self-rated health despite being in this subgroup, because it includes pain of minimal intensity at low frequency
bNot analyzed statistically due to small numbers of positive answers in all subgroups
bold: statistically significant at the significance level of 0.017 (corrected for multiple comparisons)