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

Table 2 Descriptive information of the study group at Q3 regarding previous LBP, and pain site localisation as reported at Q1

	No pain¹	Recurrent pain²	Continuous pain³	p-value
	n= 34	n= 115	n= 27	1 vs. 2	1 vs. 3	2 vs. 3
Previous LBP (before pregnancy)				0.030*	0.024*	0.482
Yes	10 (30.3)	59 (51.8)	16 (59.3)
No	23 (69.7)	55 (48.2)	11 (40.7)
Pain sites reported at Q1, n (%)				0.112	0.256	0.984
Back	10 (29.4)	21 (18.3)	5 (18.5)
Front	4 (11.8)	6 (5.2)	1 (3.7)
Mixed (back and front)	20 (58.8)	88 (76.5)	21 (77.8)

Test for difference between groups (Pearson’s chi-square).
¹‘No pain’ denotes respondents reporting remission of LBP/PGP at Q3.
²‘Recurrent pain’ denotes respondents reporting recurrent LBP/PGP at approximately 14 months after pregnancy at Q3.
³‘Continuous pain’ denotes respondents reporting continuous LBP/PGP at approximately 14 months after pregnancy at Q3.
*Significance test p<0.05.

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