Table 2.
Health insurance and healthcare utilization among US adults, ages 20–69, with and without chronic low back pain (N = 5103).
| % Total (SE%) N = 5103 |
% with cLBP (SE%) N=700 |
% w/o cLBP (SE%) N=4403 |
Chi-Sq P-value | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | AOR P-value | |
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| Have medical insurance | 76.7 (1.1) | 76.7 (2.0) | 76.7 (1.3) | 0.76 | 0.91 (0.64–1.28) | 0.58 |
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| Private | 76.7 (1.1) | 61.1 (2.9) | 79.0 (1.2) | <0.0001 | 1 (Ref.) | <0.0001 |
| Medicare | 7.0 (0.4) | 13.2 (1.6) | 6.1 (0.4) | 2.25 (1.57–3.22) | ||
| Medicaid | 7.2 (0.5) | 14.1 (1.4) | 6.2 (0.6) | 3.23 (2.19–4.75) | ||
| State-sponsored | 3.6 (0.6) | 4.0 (0.9) | 3.6 (0.6) | 1.51 (0.90–2.54) | ||
| Other govt-sponsored | 5.5 (0.9) | 7.7 (1.5) | 5.1 (0.9) | 1.94 (1.28–2.95) | ||
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| Healthcare visits in the past year | ||||||
| <2 | 37.0 (1.0) | 23.8 (2.5) | 39.0 (0.9) | <0.0001 | 1 (Ref.) | <0.0001 |
| 2–9 | 50.9 (0.9) | 52.4 (2.9) | 50.6 (0.8) | 1.55 (1.12–2.16) | ||
| ≥10 | 12.1 (0.7) | 23.8 (1.8) | 10.4 (0.7) | 3.35 (2.40–4.67) | ||
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| Hospitalized overnight in the past year | 9.8 (0.6) | 16.5 (2.0) | 8.8 (0.6) | <0.0001 | 1.95 (1.47–2.59) | <0.0001 |
SE – standard error. cLBP – chronic low back pain. AOR – adjusted odds ratio, adjusted for age, race, gender, education. CI – confidence interval. Govt – government. Reference category not displayed for binary variables.