Table 2

Demographic and Back Pain Characteristics of 249 Survey Respondents

Characteristic
Percent

Location (Boston)
43
Age (< 65)
52
Women
60
White
80
Attended some college
57
At least 5 years since first back pain lasting longer than 2 weeks
60
90+ days of LBP in last 6 mo.
61
High symptom bothersomeness in the past week (≥ 7) on 0 – 10 scale
42
Used medication for LBP in the past week
56
Expect pain to be similar in a year
72

Missing data – last variable has 10 missing values (4% of all observations), 1 variable has 5 (2%), all others have 3 or fewer.

Sherman et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4:9   doi:10.1186/1472-6882-4-9