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Demographic and Back Pain Characteristics of 249 Survey Respondents |
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| Characteristic |
Percent |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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