Are religious beliefs and practices of Buddhism associated with disability and salivary cortisol in office workers with chronic low back pain?

Table 2 Hierarchical regression analysis predicting disability due to low back pain

		R ²	R ² increment for block	Standard β	F increment
Step 1	Potential confounders for disability	.27			21.86***
	LBP duration			.16***
	Pain intensity in the past 4 weeks			.20***
	Radiation of pain in the past 4 weeks			.14**
	Expectation of treatment or recovery			-.07
	Anxiety			.06
	Depression			.16**
	FABQ physical activity subscale			.09*
	FABQ work subscale			.14**
Step 2	Religious beliefs and practices of Buddhism	.27	.00		0.51
Step 2	Total scale			.02

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