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Table 1 Heading: Baseline characteristics of high and low responders in the text message survey

From: The relationship between low back pain and leisure time physical activity in a working population of cleaners - a study with weekly follow-ups for 1 year

  

Offered text message survey (n = 238)

High responders

(n = 49)

Low responders

(n = 139)

Age (years)

Mean (SD)

44.4 (9.0)

47.7 (9.4)

43.2* (8.9)

Sex (females)

%

81.5

85.7

82.7

BMI (kg/m2)

Mean (SD)

26.7 (4.7)

26.7 (4.6)

26.5 (5.2)

Job seniority (years)

Mean (SD)

8.4 (8.4)

12.1 (10.1)

7.1* (7.1)

Last year

LTPA (1-4)

Mean (SD)

2.0 (0.8)

2.2 (0.8)

2.0 (0.8)

Ethnicity

(Danish)

%

48.7

83.7

42.4*

LBP

(> 30 days)

%

34.2

27.7

34.6

  1. Table legend: Baseline characteristics of the 238 cleaners who were offered participation in the text message survey, and of those, who consented to participate and responded to more (high responders) or less (low responders) than 80% of both questions. * = significant difference between high and low responders (p < 0.05).