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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin J Pain. 2019 Mar;35(3):238–246. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000667

Table 5:

Differences between tertile groups on clinical outcomes

Clinical Outcome Group Comparisons Estimate SE Wald Z P Cohen’s d

Study 1 (N=959)
Pain Intensity Clinical v. Subclinical 0.71 0.16 4.47 <.001 0.36
Subclinical v. Minimal 0.11 0.16 0.70 0.49 -
Clinical v. Minimal 0.82 0.15 5.40 <.001 0.43
Pain Catastrophizing Clinical v. Subclinical 8.22 0.85 9.65 <.001 0.77
Subclinical v. Minimal 8.07 0.88 9.19 <.001 0.73
Clinical v. Minimal 16.29 0.86 18.98 <.001 1.50
Quality of Life Clinical v. Subclinical −11.74 1.25 −9.38 <.001 0.75
Subclinical v. Minimal −7.07 1.25 −5.65 <.001 0.44
Clinical v. Minimal −18.82 1.28 −14.75 <.001 1.16
Activity Limitations Clinical v. Subclinical 8.42 1.8 4.68 <.001 0.38
Subclinical v. Minimal 6.87 1.84 3.74 <.001 0.29
Clinical v. Minimal 15.29 1.84 8.29 <.001 0.66
Study 2 (N=207)
Pain Intensity Clinical v. Subclinical 0.53 0.31 1.69 0.09 -
Subclinical v. Minimal 1.12 0.38 2.98 <.0.01 0.58
Clinical v. Minimal 0.59 0.33 1.78 0.07 -
Pain Catastrophizing Clinical v. Subclinical 5.75 1.85 3.11 <0.01 0.57
Subclinical v. Minimal 6.34 2.18 2.91 <0.01 0.59
Clinical v. Minimal 12.09 1.81 6.67 <.001 1.20
Functional Disability Clinical v. Subclinical 0.25 2.00 0.13 0.90 -
Subclinical v. Minimal 6.07 2.36 2.57 <0.05 0.51
Clinical v. Minimal 5.82 2.00 2.90 <0.01 0.52

False Discovery Rate (FDR) Type-1 error control was used for all pairwise comparisons.