TABLE 1.
Demographic data for participants with and without musculoskeletal pain
| Chronic regional pain | Chronic widespread pain | |||
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| No | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Female | 1371 (55.0) | 85 (3.4) | 1380 (55.4) | 76 (3.1) |
| Male | 1006 (40.4) | 31 (1.2) | 1012 (40.6) | 25 (1.0) |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| White | 2334 (93.6) | 114 (4.6) | 2329 (93.4) | 99 (4.0) |
| Black African | 6 (0.2) | 2 (0.1) | 8 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) |
| Black Caribbean | 1 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Other Black | 2 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| Indian | 9 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (0.3) | 1 (0.0) |
| Pakistani | 1 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Chinese | 9 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) |
| Other | 15 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (0.6) | 1 (0.0) |
| Socioeconomic position | ||||
| Class I | 125 (5.1) | 5 (0.2) | 126 (5.1) | 4 (0.2) |
| Class II | 677 (27.2) | 20 (0.8) | 668 (26.8) | 29 (1.2) |
| Class III | 689 (27.6) | 43 (1.7) | 710 (28.5) | 22 (0.9) |
| Class IV | 553 (22.2) | 31 (1.2) | 557 (22.3) | 27 (1.1) |
| Class V | 275 (11.0) | 14 (0.6) | 272 (10.9) | 17 (0.7) |
| Armed forces | 56 (2.3) | 3 (0.1) | 57 (2.3) | 2 (0.1) |
| Don’t know | 2 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| Pain severity*, mean ± SD | 4.16±2.07 | 5.64±2.21 | 4.21±2.08 | 5.38±2.35 |
Data presented as n (%) unless otherwise indicated.
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