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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Oral Rehabil. 2015 Apr 16;42(9):651–656. doi: 10.1111/joor.12302

Table 1.

Associations between mean OBC score and various biopsychosocial characteristics.

Biopsychosocial Characteristic Mean OBC score Sum (N) P - value
Gender Female 0.99 56 .965
Male 0.98 38
Anxiety symptoms Absent 0.84 51 ≤ .001
Present 1.15 42
Depression symptoms Absent 0.86 61 ≤ .001
Present 1.23 33
Physical symptoms Absent 0.75 39 ≤ .001
Present 1.16 55
Characteristic pain intensity No pain 0.85 36 .002
Low pain intensity 0.98 40
High pain intensity1 1.27 18
TMD diagnoses Normal 0.91 42 .001
Non-pain TMD 0.76 16
Pain-related TMD2 1.18 36
1

Tukey HSD indicated that the mean OBC score of the high pain intensity group was statistically significantly higher than the mean OBC scores of the other subgroups (p ≤ 0.05).

2

Tukey HSD indicated that the mean OBC score of the pain-related TMD group was statistically significantly higher than the mean OBC scores of other subgroups (p ≤ 0.05).