Table 2.

Frequency of healthcare visits due to any cause by groups

Variable	Category	No pain (A) (N = 4.690)		Non chronic continuous pain (B) (N = 543)		Chronic pain (C) (N = 1.825)		p-value	p-value A vs. B	p-value A vs. C	p-value B vs. C
		N	%	N	%	N	%
Visit to healthcare due to any reason in the last 4 weeks	Yes No	1.316 3.374	28.1 71.9	324 219	59.7 40.3	1.083 742	59.3 40.7	< 0.001 a	< 0.001 a	< 0.001 a	0.892a
Frequency of primary care visits (only those who answered yes to the first question in this table)	Never 1 time 2 times 3 times or more	261 791 176 88	19.8 60.1 13.4 6.7	58 172 63 31	17.9 53.1 19.4 9.6	128 565 247 143	11.8 52.2 22.8 13.2	< 0.001 a	0.007 a	< 0.001 a	0.012 a
Frequency of specialized care visits (only those who answered yes to the first question in this table)	Never 1 time 2 times 3 times or more	615 524 115 62	46.7 39.8 8.7 4.7	148 117 32 27	45.7 36.1 9.9 8.3	309 464 169 141	28.5 42.8 15.6 13	< 0.001 a	0.054a	< 0.001 a	< 0.001 a
Frequency of hospital care visits (only those who answered yes to the first question in this table)	Never 1 time 2 times 3 times or more	1.119 140 26 31	85 10.6 2 2.4	253 43 13 15	78.1 13.3 4 4.6	848 139 33 63	78.3 12.8 3 5.8	< 0.001 a	0.006 a	< 0.001 a	0.709a
Frequency of emergency visits (only those who answered yes to the first question in this table)	Never 1 time 2 times 3 times or more	934 313 41 28	71 23.8 3.1 2.1	156 129 22 17	48.1 39.8 6.8 5.2	657 279 70 77	60.7 25.8 6.5 7.1	< 0.001 a	< 0.001 a	< 0.001 a	< 0.001 a

^aChi-square

Bold p-values highlight statistically significant results