Pain characteristics of adolescent spinal pain

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Published online 2015 Apr 17. doi: 10.1186/s12887-015-0344-5

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Table 6

Predictors for moderate/severe and frequent/daily pain in more than one spinal area (logistic regression analysis: 0=no, 1=yes)

	Moderate/severe and frequent/daily pain in more than one spinal area (N=22) versus no pain (N=160)
	B (SE)	OR:	95% CI	p _adj
	B (SE)	Exp B _adj (Exp B _unadj )	Exp B _adj	p _adj
Age	0.34 (0.16)	1.40 (1.48)	1.02-1.92	0.039
Gender	1.42 (0.61)	4.15 (3.65)	1.26-13.67	0.019
BMI	-0.06 (0.08)	0.94 (1.06)	0.80-1.11	0.478
Finger Floor Distance	-0.01 (0.03)	0.99 (0.99)	0.94-1.06	0.815
Adams sign	-0.16 (0.69)	0.85 (2.02)	0.22-3.27	0.812
Single leg stance with closed eyes	1.29 (0.65)	3.65 (1.75)	1.03-12.97	0.046
TV/computer activities	0.06 (0.04)	1.06 (1.05)	0.98-1.16	0.162
Parental back pain	-0.24 (0.75)	0.79 (0.87)	0.18-3.43	0.752
Parental smoking	0.09 (0.65)	1.10 (1.08)	0.31-3.95	0.886
Sleep disorders	1.57 (0.58)	4.79 (4.04)	1.55-14.80	0.006
Headache	1.09 (0.66)	2.98 (2.71)	0.82-10.88	0.098
Abdominal pain	-0.28 (1.04)	0.75 (0.95)	0.10-5.79	0.786
Headache and abdominal pain	1.39 (0.85)	4.00 (4.50)	0.76-21.04	0.102

adj = adjusted (all explanatory variables included in model).

BMI = body mass index.

OR = Odds ratio.

unadj = unadjusted (only one explanatory variable included in model).

Numbers in bold indicate statistical significance.