Table 1.
Demographic characteristic of healthcare professionals working in tertiary hospitals in metropolitan Shanghai (Xuhui, Jing’An and Yangpu districts) and community health centres in regional Shanghai (Jin Shan district)
|
Demographic characteristic |
Tertiary hospitals in metropolitan Shanghai (N = 231) |
Community health centres in regional Shanghai (N = 201) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nurses | Medical Practitioners | Therapists | TCMP | Other | Nurses | Medical Practitioners | Therapists | TCMP | Other | |
| N (%)a |
111 (48.1) |
46 (19.9) |
44 (19.0) |
5 (2.2) |
25 (10.8) |
102 (51.3) |
71 (35.7) |
0 |
13 (6.5) |
13 (6.5) |
| Gender: n (%) femaleb |
109 (98.2) |
25 (54.3) |
18 (40.9) |
3 (30.0) |
14 (56.0) |
98 (97.0) |
30 (42.3) |
0 |
6 (46.2) |
3 (23.1) |
| Highest academic qualification%c Secondary technical |
16.2 |
2.2 |
11.4 |
0 |
4.0 |
36.4 |
14.3 |
- |
30.8 |
33.3 |
| Junior college/Senior high |
56.8 |
2.2 |
20.5 |
0 |
4.0 |
58.6 |
30.0 |
- |
30.8 |
16.7 |
| Bachelor degree |
23.4 |
*43.5 |
56.8 |
60.0 |
60.0 |
5.1 |
*50.0 |
- |
30.8 |
50.0 |
| Postgraduate degree |
3.6 |
52.2 |
11.4 |
40.0 |
32.0 |
0 |
5.7 |
- |
7.7 |
0 |
| Age: mean (SD)a |
32.9 (10.0) |
39.3 (10.0) |
35.0 (9.7) |
38.8 (8.6) |
29.9 (10.8) |
35.8 (9.9) |
40.6 (10.2) |
- |
46.5 (10.6) |
43.7 (9.9) |
| Years of practice: mean (SD)a |
11.5 (10.1) |
14.1 (10.2) |
12.7 (10.5) |
16 (8.7) |
7.8 (11.9) |
15.0 (10.1) |
18.3 (10.9) |
- |
22.6 (10.5) |
22.1 (10.1) |
| Lifetime experience of LBP n (%) |
65 (58.6) |
24 (52.2) |
24 (54.5) |
0 (0.0) |
10 (40.0) |
59 (57.8) |
37 (52.1) |
- |
7 (53.8) |
8 (61.5) |
| Experience of LBP in last 12 month n (%) |
64 (57.7) |
22 (47.8) |
24 (54.5) |
- |
10 (40.0) |
55 (53.9) |
35 (49.3) |
- |
5 (38.5) |
7 (53.8) |
| Usual pain last week (/10) Median (range) | 1.7 (0–8) | 1.2 (0–7) | 2.0 (0–8) | - | 1.6 (0–4) | 2.1 (0–10) | 1.9 (0–9) | - | 2.6 (1–8) | 0.8 (0–5) |
TCMP = Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners;
*A proportion of medical practitioners do not have a bachelor’s degree. They may have undertaken a certificate-oriented three-year medical training course at a medical college before the reform in medical education in the late 1990s[51].
a: n = 2 data points missing for rural practitioners, N = 199.
b: n = 3 data point missing for rural practitioners, N = 198.
c: n = 7 data point missing for rural practitioners, N = 194.