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Table 2 Patients’ sociodemographic data

From: Physicians’ and patients’ perceived risks of chronic pain medication and co-medications in Quebec, Canada: a cross-sectional study

Variables

Patients (n = 141)

Mean ± SD

Age (y)

54.47 ± 11.56

Duration of pain (y)

18.49 ± 13.64

Pain intensity in the last 7 days (0–10)

5.80 ± 2.13

 

n (%)

Sex at birth*

 Females

 Males

120 (85.71)

20 (14.29)

Gender Identity

 

 Women

121 (85.82)

 Men

20 (14.18)

 Other

0 (0.00)

Region of residence

 

 Nonremote regions

111 (78.72)

 Remote regions

30 (21.28)

Report of having received a diagnostic by a physician or nurse practitioner (non mutually exclusive categories)

 

 Chronic widespread pain

63 (44.68)

 Osteoarthritis (and arthrosis)

43 (30.50)

 Chronic neuropathic pain

16 (11.35)

 Herniated disc

11 (7.80)

 Chronic migraine

7 (4.96)

 Chronic post traumatic pain

6 (4.26)

 Not diagnosed

14 (9.93)

  1. Footnotes:
  2. * 1 missing data
  3. † Revenu Quebec (provincial revenue agency) defines remote resource regions as: Bas-Saint-Laurent (region 01), Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (region 02), Abitibi-Témiscamingue (region 08), Côte-Nord (region 09), Nord-du-Québec (region 10), Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine (region 11). Nonremote regions are near a major urban centre
  4. SD = Standard Deviation