Table 6

Correlations between sociodemographic and disease characteristics with "pain and disability"


Spearman's' rho
p

Sociodemographics
Age
0.052
0.129
Marital status
-0.069
0.028
Gender
0.096
0.002
Education
-0.076
0.016
IPAQ sum score
-0.033
0.346
BMI
0.157
<0.001
Health service utilization
GP contacts
0.251
<0.001
Visits to Orthopedics
0.238
<0.001
Visits to healers
0.007
0.831
Amount of performed X-rays
0.254
<0.001
Physiotherapy
0.207
<0.001
Amount of prescriptions
0.178
<0.001
Disease characteristics
Duration of OA
0.269
<0.001
Amount of comorbidities
0.221
<0.001
PHQ-9 sum score
0.475
<0.001
Quality of life/AIMS2-Sf scales
Upper body
0.398
0.001
Affect
0.472
0.001
Social
0.212
<0.001
Work
-0.018
0.569

Rosemann et al. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2007 2:12   doi:10.1186/1749-799X-2-12

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