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Table 2 Baseline characteristics of study participants (full version see Table 5 in Appendix)

From: Green exercise and mg-ca-SO4 thermal balneotherapy for the treatment of non-specific chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled clinical trial

 

Green exercise and balneotherapy

Green exercise

Control

p-value with Bonferroni correction

 

Number

26

27

27

  

Sex (female/male)

14/12

14/13

17/10

  

Age (years)

53.35 ± 8.26

52.85 ± 6.43

43.81 ± 12.07

<  0.000***

 

BMI

26.32 ± 4.47

24.78 ± 2.73

25.06 ± 3.18

0.245

 

Korff

1.92 ± 1.02

1.52 ± 0.75

1.63 ± 0.77

0.580

 

Pain medication

0.73 ± 1.04

0.74 ± 1.1

1 ± 0.89

0.368

 

Physicians consultations

0.88 ± 1.28

0.63 ± 0.79

1.37 ± 0.63

0.002**

 

Status of employee’s illness

1 ± 1.67

0.3 ± 0.87

0.89 ± 0.64

0.002**

 

Job satisfaction

74.38 ± 25.21

79.19 ± 20.59

79.96 ± 23.16

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  1. Data represented as mean ± SD