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Table 1 Descriptive information of the study group at Q3

From: Pregnancy-related low back pain and pelvic girdle pain approximately 14 months after pregnancy – pain status, self-rated health and family situation

 

No pain

Recurrent pain

Continuous pain

Total

n=34

n=115

n=27

n=176

Age, mean (SD)

31.56 (4.9)

32.2 (4.6)

31.3 (5.7)

31.9 (4.8)

Age at first delivery, mean (SD)

26.2 (3.7)

25.8 (4.3)

24.7 (3.7)

25.7 (4.1)

Marital status

 Single

-

3 (2.6)

2 (7.4)

5 (2.8)

 Cohabiting

24 (70.6)

71 (61.7)

12 (44.4)

107 (60.8)

 Relationship but not cohabiting

-

1 (0.9)

1 (3.7)

2 (1.1)

 Married

10 (29.4)

40 (34.8)

12 (44.4)

62 (35.2)

Education at Q1

 Compulsory school

2 (5.9)

3 (2.6)

1 (3.7)

6 (3.4)

 High school

13 (38.2)

53 (46.1)

16 (59.3)

82 (46.6)

 Folk high school

-

2 (1.7)

-

2 (1.1)

 University

19 (55.9)

57 (49.6)

10 (37.0)

86 (48.9)

Parity

 1

16 (91.2)

37 (32.2)

12 (44.4)

65 (36.9)

 2

9 (26.5)

48 (41.7)

10 (37.0)

67 (38.1)

 3

8 (23.5)

24 (20.9)

3 (11.1)

35 (19.9)

 ≥4

1 (2.9)

6 (5.2)

2 (7.4)

9 (5.1)

Physical activity

 Yes

19 (55.9)

69 (60)

19 (70.4)

107 (60.8)

 No

15 (44.1)

46 (40)

8 (29.6)

69 (39.2)

Self-rated health (SRH)

 Very good

7 (20.6)

18 (15.7)

2 (7.4)

27 (15.4)

 Quite good

18 (52.9)

56 (48.7)

10 (37.0)

84 (48.0)

 Fair

6 (17.6)

34 (29.6)

10 (37.0)

50 (28.6)

 Quite poor

3 (8.8)

5 (4.3)

4 (14.8)

12 (6.9)

 Poor

-

1 (0.9)

1 (3.7)

2 (1.1)

Smoking/tobacco

 Yes

3 (8.8)

7 (6.1)

6 (22.2)

16 (9.1)

 No

31 (91.2)

107 (93.0)

21 (77.8)

159 (90.3)

 Snuff

-

1 (0.9)

-

1 (0.6)

  1. Numbers in parenthesis are percentage unless otherwise specified.
  2. 1‘No pain’ denotes respondents reporting remission of LBP/PGP at Q3.
  3. 2‘Recurrent pain’ denotes respondents reporting recurrent LBP/PGP at approximately 14 months post-partum at Q3.
  4. 3‘Continuous pain’ denotes respondents reporting continuous LBP/PGP at approximately 14 months post-partum at Q3.