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Table 2 Percentage of weeks with 7 days of bothersome low back pain reported by participants a) with low back pain and Modic changes (Study 1), b) with non-specific low back pain (Study 2), and c) participants in Study 2 who provided text messages less than 50 % of the time

From: Persistence of pain in patients with chronic low back pain reported via weekly automated text messages over one year

Percentage of weeks in 1 year where LBP was reported to have been present all 7 days

Study 1: Patients with low back pain and Modic changes

Study 2: Patients with non-specific low back pain

Study 2: Patients who provided text messages less than 50 % of the time

(N = 80)

(N = 209)

(N = 30)

%

%

%

%

0

16

10

30

1–10

15

21

10

11–20

11

13

3

21–30

9

6

10

31–40

3

5

10

41–50

4

3

10

51–60

3

3

3

61–70

3

2

-

71–80

6

4

-

81–90

6

6

3

91–99

15

10

3

100

10

15

17