Table 3.
Pain characteristics and health outcomes at 12-month follow-up across pain trajectory groups and for the total sample
| Trajectory groups
|
Total sample | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Early recovery | Late recovery | ||
| Pain intensity, M (SD) | 0.6 (0.8) | 2.9 (1.5) | 1.1 (1.3) |
| Pain frequency, n (%) | |||
| Not at all | 12 (34.3) | 0 (0.0) | 12 (27.9) |
| Once per week | 10 (28.6) | 2 (25.0) | 12 (27.9) |
| 2 to 3 times per week | 9 (25.7) | 2 (25.0) | 11 (25.6) |
| 3 to 5 times per week | 3 (8.6) | 1 (12.5) | 4 (9.3) |
| Daily | 1 (2.9) | 3 (37.5) | 4 (9.3) |
| Pain duration, n (%) | |||
| Less than 1 hour | 30 (85.7) | 4 (50.0) | 34 (79.1) |
| A few hours | 2 (5.7) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (4.7) |
| Half of the day | 3 (8.57) | 3 (37.5) | 6 (14.0) |
| All day | 0 (0.0) | 1 (12.5) | 1 (2.3) |
| Activity limitations, M (SD) | 2.4 (3.6) | 6.3 (7.3) | 3.1 (4.7) |
| Health-related quality of life, M (SD) | |||
| Total quality of life | 86 (10.8) | 74.8 (15.3) | 83.9 (12.4) |
| Psychosocial quality of life | 85.9 (12.5) | 76.3 (13.8) | 84.1 (13.1) |
| Physical quality of life | 86.1 (14.0) | 71.9 (25.2) | 83.5 (17.2) |