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Table 2 Psychosocial characteristics of participants consulting for a knee complaint according to diagnostic concordance between health providers (n = 259a)

From: Higher psychological distress in patients seeking care for a knee disorder is associated with diagnostic discordance between health care providers: a secondary analysis of a diagnostic concordance study

 

Overall (n = 259)

Overall (n = 259)

Overall (n = 259)

Discordant diagnosis (n = 70)

Concordant diagnosis (n = 189)

Student t-testb (p-value)

Chi-square testc (p-value)

Recoded questions in categoriesd

Discordant diagnosis (n = 70)

Concordant diagnosis (n = 189)

Chi-sqare test (p-value)

OR (95%CrI)

P-value

X (SD)

Median (range)

Mode

X (SD)

X (SD)

n (%)

n (%)

K6 total score (/24)

   

4.8 (5.4)

3.2 (4.2)

0.01†

     

1.1 (1.01–1.1)

0.02†

Nervous (/4)

1.3 (1.3)

1 (0–4)

0

1.5 (1.3)

1.2 (1.3)

0.17

0.09

Nervous (Yes)

51 (72.9)

109 (57.7)

0.03†

2.0 (1.1–3.6)

0.03†

Hopeless (/4)

0.5 (1.0)

0 (0–4)

0

0.7 (1.1)

0.4 (0.9)

0.02†

0.00†

Hopeless (Yes)

30 (42.9)

39 (20.6)

0.00†

2.9 (1.6–5.2)

0.000†

Restless (/4)

0.8 (1.1)

0 (0–4)

0

0.9 (1.2)

0.7 (1.1)

0.12

0.01†

Restless (Yes)

36 (51.4)

61 (32.3)

0.005†

2.2 (1.3–3.9)

0.005†

Depressed (/4)

0.3 (0.8)

0 (0–4)

0

0.4 (0.9)

0.2 (0.7)

0.04†

0.001†

Depressed (Yes)

20 (28.6)

21 (11.1)

0.001†

3.2 (1.6–6.4)

0.001†

Everything is an effort (/4)

0.6 (1.1)

0 (0–4)

0

0.8 (1.2)

0.5 (1.0)

0.02†

0.07

Everything is an effort (Yes)

30 (42.9)

48 (25.4)

0.007†

2.2 (1.2–3.9)

0.007†

Worthless (/4)

0.2 (0.7)

0 (0–4)

0

0.4 (0.9)

0.2 (0.6)

0.02†

0.03†

Worthless (Yes)

17 (24.3)

18 (9.5)

0.002†

3.0 (1.4–6.3)

0.003†

  1. OR Odd ratio, CrI Credibility interval
  2. †p < 0.05
  3. an = 259; 20 participants refused to answer the K6 questionnaire for personal reasons
  4. bFor continuous variables
  5. cFor categorical variables
  6. dThe K6 questions were recoded in two categories as no symptom or presence of the symptom (A little of the time, some of the time, most of the time all of the time)