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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Perceived injustice in patients with chronic pain

  

Patients (n)

Agea

 

50.3 (SD 14.2)

Sex (m/f)

 

67/97

Pain localization

Head and Face

30 (18.3%)

Cervical

23 (14.0%)

Lumbar

66 (40.3%)

Extremities

15 (9.1%)

Abominal

5 (3.0%)

WSP

25 (15.2%)

Occupational Status

Retired:

19 (11.5%)

Disability pension:

31(18.9%)

Unemployed:

29 (17.6%)

Employed:

85 (51.9%)

Work leave

Yes:

58 (35.7%)

No:

66 (40.2%)

n.a.:

40 (24.4%)

Pension application

Yes:

12 (7.3%)

No:

123 (75.0%)

n.a.:

29 (17.6%)

Professional education

Academic:

27 (16.4%)

Non-academic:

128 (78.0%)

None:

10 (6%)

Marital status

married:

100 (60.9%)

divorced:

13 (7.9%)

widowed:

3 (1.8%)

unwedded:

48 (29.3%)

Coded psychological diagnoses:

Patients (n)

Patients (n)

F45.41

Yes: 149

No: 15

Depression

Yes: 79,

No: 85

Anxiety

Yes: 12

No: 152

Somatization disorder

Yes: 7

No: 157

Sleep disorder

Yes: 83

No: 81

Coded Z-diagnoses

Family

Yes: 52

No: 112

Work

Yes: 88

No. 76

 

Yes: 37

No: 127

Finance

Yes: 26

No. 138

Any Z-diagnose

Yes: 129

No: 35

Pain scores

 

Median (IQR)

 

Current

7.0 (5.0–8.0)

 

Meana

7.0 (6.0–8.0)

 

Highest

9.0 (8.0–10.0)

 

Bearable

3.0 (2.0–4.0)

 

Totalb

7.33 (6.33–8.0)

IEQ

Blame

8.0 (4.0–13.75)

 

Severity

15.0 (12.0–18.0)

 

Total

24.0 (17.0–31.0)

DASS

Depression

9.0 (4.0–14.0)

 

Anxiety

5.0 (2.0–9.0)

 

Stress

10.0 (7.0–14.0)

 

Total

25.0 (15.0–34.0)

FW 7

 

10.0 (4.0–14.75)

Disability score

 

77.33 (56.67–83.33)

  1. Personal data, pain localizations, socioeconomic data, coded diagnoses and scales: WSP wide spread pain, IEQ Injustice experience questionnaire, DASS Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, F45.41 = ICD-10 code for pain disorder with somatic and psychological factors, FW7 = Marburg questionnaire on habitual health findings
  2. aduring the last 4 weeks
  3. btotal = (current + mean + highest)/3