Complementary and alternative medical therapies for chronic low back pain: What treatments are patients willing to try?

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Published online 2004 Jul 19. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-4-9

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Table 2

Demographic and Back Pain Characteristics of 249 Survey Respondents

Characteristic	Percent
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

Missing data – last variable has 10 missing values (4% of all observations), 1 variable has 5 (2%), all others have 3 or fewer.