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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2011 Mar 15;36(6):474–480. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181d41632

Table 3.

Pre, Post, and Percent Change Descriptive Statistics for Work Retention (WR) and No Work Retention (NWR) Groups.

Work Retention

Mean, SD WR
(n=520)
NWR
(n=181)
P Value
ODI
 Pre 39.60±15.17 44.71±15.16 <.001
 Post 25.19±13.58 31.23±14.89 <.001
 Percent Change 35.26±30.20 31.07±27.26 .10
Effect Size .95 .89
SF-36 MCS
 Pre 40.43±9.33 39.53±9.84 .27
 Post 48.47±9.39 45.73±10.42 .001
 Percent Change 11.61±18.95 7.77±21.0 .02
Effect Size .86 .63
SF-36 PCS
 Pre 31.40±5.69 30.46±6.38 .06
 Post 37.53±7.72 35.35±7.53 .001
 Percent Change 7.23±14.30 4.21±16.23 .02
Effect Size 1.07 .77