Who seeks primary care for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) with physicians prescribing homeopathic and other complementary medicine? Results from the EPI3-LASER survey in France

Table 4 Quality of life in patients with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in three types of primary care practice (N = 1,692)

Type of primary care practice
	Conventional Medicine			Mixed			Homeopathic
	All	Acute¹	Chronic¹	All	Acute	Chronic	All	Acute	Chronic
Quality of life SF-12
Mental score ²	41.7	43.2*	40.0*	42.0	42.9*	41.1*	41.7	41.2	42.0
Mean (SD)	(10.7)	(9.5)	(11.5)	(10.3)	(10.4)	(10.1)	(9.6)	(9.3)	(9.7)
Physical score ²	42.4	43.4	41.3	41.9	43.1*	40.7*	42.8	43.6	42.3
Mean (SD)	(10.4)	(10.3)	(10.4)	(10.4)	(10.9)	(9.8)	(10.8)	(10.1)	(11.2)

1 Chronicity defined as duration of the current MSD episode for more than 12 weeks.
2 Adjusted means in covariance analyses including age, sex, presence of co-morbidities and regular treating physician or not.
* Differences between acute and chronic patients statistically significant at p < 0.05.

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