Table 4.

Medical and dental students' intent to seek medical treatment and possible influencing factors.

	Neck pain				Low back pain				Joint pain
	Seeking medical treatment	Conservative treatment	Spearman's rho	P-value	Seeking medical treatment	Conservative treatment	Spearman's rho	P-value	Seeking medical treatment	Conservative treatment	Spearman's rho	P-value
Mother's education			−0.02	0.53			0.02	0.78			0.08	0.30
University and above	3	105			2	68			3	45
High school	1	103			4	79			3	31
Junior high school	0	153			1	105			6	55
Primary school and below	3	155			5	97			5	34
Father's education			−0.06	0.19			−0.09	0.11			−0.009	0.80
University and above	3	140			5	91			5	59
High school	3	120			4	80			6	41
Junior high school	0	173			2	127			6	51
Primary school and below	1	83			1	51			0	14
Family annual income (in Chinese Yuan)			0.02	0.76			−0.01	0.77			−0.08	0.21
<49,999	2	115			3	66			5	20
50,000–99,999	1	145			3	104			3	43
100,000–199,999	1	130			3	98			5	56
200,000–499,999	3	103			3	68			4	40
500,000–999,999	0	17			0	12			0	5
>1,000,000	0	6			0	1			0	1
Personal monthly income (in Chinese Yuan)			0.02	0.78			0.04	0.59			−0.02	0.78
<1,000	2	197			3	137			6	58
1,000–3,000	5	300			9	194			11	101
>3,000	0	19			0	18			0	6
Pain severity (NRS)	–	–	0.103*	0.02	–	–	0.17**	0.001	–	–	0.26**	0.001
Pain frequency			0.06	0.25			0.04	0.17			0.23**	0.002
Almost never	1	62			2	53			0	25
Sometimes	3	379			7	246			12	128
Fairly often	3	67			1	44			3	9
Very often	0	8			2	6			2	3
ODI score	–	–	−0.01	0.76	–	–	0.01	0.46	–	–	0.08	0.93

^**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

^*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).