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. 2007 Summer;12(2):100–106. doi: 10.1155/2007/425318

TABLE 5.

Disorder classification per group (based on country of birth and population percentage)

Birth/ethnicity Group I
Group II
Group III
F M F+M F M F+M F M F+M
Canadian 23.3 29.4 25.9 51.5 50.2 50.9 22.3 16.3 19.9
Southern European 24.2 38.0 29.8 48.4 45.2 47.1 24.2 14.3 20.2
Eastern European 38.0 57.0 45.7 47.6 28.6 40.0 9.5 14.3 11.4
Northern European 23.5 13.3 20.4 50.0 40.0 46.9 23.5 40.0 28.6
All European 36.5 36.6 30.3 48.7 40.8 45.7 21.4 19.7 20.7
Caribbean 13.8 33.3 20.5 44.8 53.3 47.7 37.9 13.3 29.6
South-central Asian 11.8 23.8 18.4 41.2 57.0 50.0 47.0 19.0 31.6

Group I Pain disorder associated primarily with biomedical factors; Group II Pain disorder associated with a general medical condition and psychological factors; Group III Pain disorder associated with psychological factors. F Female; M Male