The use of self-report questions to examine the prevalence of musculoskeletal problems: a test-retest study

Table 5 Effect of sequence, questionnaire wording and time between questionnaires on prevalence questions in questionnaire 1 and questionnaire 2

	Sequence effect	Question wording effect	Time between questionnaires
	p-value	p-value	p-value
Back pain^a	0.326	0.016	0.038
Back stiffness^a	0.620	0.009	0.028
Hip pain	0.593	0.111	0.593
Hip stiffness^a	0.889	0.072	0.795
Knee pain/stiffness^a	0.233	0.346	0.159
Foot pain/stiffness	0.885	0.039	0.443
Hand pain/stiffness^a	0.631	0.026	0.002
Shoulder pain	0.363	0.292	0.292
Shoulder stiffness	0.566	0.111	0.291

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