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Table 1 Demographic characteristic of healthcare professionals working in tertiary hospitals in metropolitan Shanghai (Xuhui, Jing’An and Yangpu districts) and community health centres in regional Shanghai (Jin Shan district)

From: Low back pain beliefs are associated to age, location of work, education and pain-related disability in Chinese healthcare professionals working in China: a cross sectional survey

Demographic characteristic

Tertiary hospitals in metropolitan Shanghai (N = 231)

Community health centres in regional Shanghai (N = 201)

 

Nurses

Medical Practitioners

Therapists

TCMP

Other

Nurses

Medical Practitioners

Therapists

TCMP

Other

N (%)a

111 (48.1)

46 (19.9)

44 (19.0)

5 (2.2)

25 (10.8)

102 (51.3)

71 (35.7)

0

13 (6.5)

13 (6.5)

Gender: n (%) femaleb

109 (98.2)

25 (54.3)

18 (40.9)

3 (30.0)

14 (56.0)

98 (97.0)

30 (42.3)

0

6 (46.2)

3 (23.1)

Highest academic qualification%c Secondary technical

16.2

2.2

11.4

0

4.0

36.4

14.3

-

30.8

33.3

Junior college/Senior high

56.8

2.2

20.5

0

4.0

58.6

30.0

-

30.8

16.7

Bachelor degree

23.4

*43.5

56.8

60.0

60.0

5.1

*50.0

-

30.8

50.0

Postgraduate degree

3.6

52.2

11.4

40.0

32.0

0

5.7

-

7.7

0

Age: mean (SD)a

32.9 (10.0)

39.3 (10.0)

35.0 (9.7)

38.8 (8.6)

29.9 (10.8)

35.8 (9.9)

40.6 (10.2)

-

46.5 (10.6)

43.7 (9.9)

Years of practice: mean (SD)a

11.5 (10.1)

14.1 (10.2)

12.7 (10.5)

16 (8.7)

7.8 (11.9)

15.0 (10.1)

18.3 (10.9)

-

22.6 (10.5)

22.1 (10.1)

Lifetime experience of LBP n (%)

65 (58.6)

24 (52.2)

24 (54.5)

0 (0.0)

10 (40.0)

59 (57.8)

37 (52.1)

-

7 (53.8)

8 (61.5)

Experience of LBP in last 12 month n (%)

64 (57.7)

22 (47.8)

24 (54.5)

-

10 (40.0)

55 (53.9)

35 (49.3)

-

5 (38.5)

7 (53.8)

Usual pain last week (/10) Median (range)

1.7 (0–8)

1.2 (0–7)

2.0 (0–8)

-

1.6 (0–4)

2.1 (0–10)

1.9 (0–9)

-

2.6 (1–8)

0.8 (0–5)

  1. TCMP = Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners;
  2. *A proportion of medical practitioners do not have a bachelor’s degree. They may have undertaken a certificate-oriented three-year medical training course at a medical college before the reform in medical education in the late 1990s[51].
  3. a: n = 2 data points missing for rural practitioners, N = 199.
  4. b: n = 3 data point missing for rural practitioners, N = 198.
  5. c: n = 7 data point missing for rural practitioners, N = 194.