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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2016 Jun;157(6):1259–1265. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000516

Table 2.

Preoperative phenotypic differences between patients reporting persistent opioid use (6-months postoperatively) and those that did not

Opioid use at 6 months

Day of surgery characteristics No
(N = 386)
Yes
(N = 70)
p value

Age 63.48 (10.42) 62.57 (11.27) 0.509
Male 48.70% 37.10% 0.074
Caucasian 95.90% 94.20% 0.531
Knee surgery 40.50% 51.30% 0.087
WOMAC Pain (range = 3–20) 10.27 (3.25) 12.17 (3.67) < 0.001
WOMAC Functioning (range = 8–61) 35.24 (10.24) 39.9 (12.5) 0.002
WOMAC Stiffness (range = 0–8) 4.45 (1.76) 5.27 (1.76) 0.001
WOMAC Total (range = 16–89) 49.96 (13.97) 57.22 (16.93) < 0.001
BPI Overall Pain Severity (range = 0–10) 4.32 (1.9) 5.43 (1.99) < 0.001
HADS Depression (range = 0–17) 4.3 (3.08) 5.49 (3.91) 0.006
HADS Anxiety (range = 0–20) 5.14 (3.5) 6.03 (4.17) 0.064
CSQ Catastrophizing (range = 0–36) 4.01 (4.99) 6.81 (8.42) 0.001

Note. WOMAC = Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index; BPI = Brief Pain Inventory; HADS = Hospital and Anxiety and Depression Scale; CSQ = Coping Strategies Questionnaire-Catastrophizing subscale. Chi-square tests were conducted for categorical variables and independent sample t-tests were conducted for continuous variables. Mean and standard deviation were reported for continuous variables.