Table 5.
Means (SD) for the psychosocial variables measured across the five clusters.
| Measures means (SD) |
Low Pressure Pain Sensitivity (n=39) |
Average Pain Sensitivity (n=88) |
High TS of Punctate Pain (n=38) |
High Cold Pain Sensitivity (n=80) |
High Heat Pain & TS of Heat Pain (n=41) |
Probability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted | Adjusted* | ||||||
| CSQ-Catastrophizing a | 1.0 (0.9) | 1.3 (1.0) | 1.9 (1.2) | 1.8 (1.2) | 2.4 (1.3) | <0.0001 | 0.0001 |
| CSQ-Active Coping | 3.0 (0.9) | 2.9 (1.1) | 3.0 (1.0) | 2.7 (0.8) | 3.1 (1.0) | 0.1159 | 0.1603 |
| CSQ-Passive Coping b | 1.9 (1.2) | 2.5 (1.3) | 3.3 (1.0) | 3.1 (1.1) | 3.5 (1.1) | <0.0001 | <0.0001 |
| IVC-Active Coping a | 2.3 (0.7) | 2.6 (0.8) | 2.7 (0.9) | 2.6 (0.8) | 2.9 (1.0) | 0.0076 | 0.0365 |
| IVC-Passive Coping | 2.2 (1.1) | 2.5 (1.2) | 2.8 (1.2) | 2.7 (1.2) | 3.3 (1.4) | 0.0023 | 0.1358 |
| KRS-Total Score b | 68.8 (12.9) | 76.7 (11.0) | 80.1 (10.2) | 79.8 (11.6) | 83.4 (12.8) | <0.0001 | 0.0060 |
| PVAQ-Total Score b | 36.2 (14.3) | 45.2 (13.7) | 48.8 (15.5) | 45.4 (14.5) | 53.1 (13.1) | <0.0001 | 0.0055 |
| EOD-Total Score | 8.9 (13.2) | 5.3 (7.3) | 9.6 (9.9) | 5.4 (8.5) | 7.4 (8.7) | 0.0319 | 0.0830 |
*
Statistical analysis adjusted for age, sex, race, BMI, level of education, income and study site.
a
significant group differences between the Low Pressure Pain Cluster and the High Heat and Heat Temporal Cluster (p<0.05, Bonferroni)
b
significant group differences between the Low Pressure Pain Cluster and all other clusters (p<0.05, Bonferroni)