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

Table 3 Summary of the estimates from the multivariable regression model for beliefs about low back pain using the Back Belief Questionnaire (BBQ) as the dependent variable

	Marginal Means	Unstandardised regression coefficient¹	95% CI			p-value
Location of work
Metropolitan hospitals	29.5	REF
Regional community health centres	27.1	−2.4	−3.8	-	−1.0	0.001
Occupation
Nurses	28.1	REF				0.773²
Medical practitioners	29.0	0.9	−0.9	-	2.7	0.341
Therapists	28.1	0.0	−2.3	-	2.3	1.000
TCMP	29.7	1.6	−1.6	-	4.8	0.321
Other	28.1	0.0	−2.4	-	2.4	0.977
LBP Disability
No LBP	28.5	REF				0.387²
LBP low disability	28.8	0.3	−1.0	-	1.6	0.650
LBP high disability	27.6	−0.9	−2.5	-	0.8	0.298
Gender
Male	29.4	REF
Female	28.0	−1.4	−3.0	-	0.2	0.082
Age
20 to29 yrs	27.2	REF				0.005²
30 to 39 yrs	28.0	0.8	−0.8	-	2.3	0.326
40 yrs or greater	29.6	2.4³	0.9	-	3.9	0.001
Academic Qualification
Secondary technical school	28.5	REF				0.951²
Junior college/Senior High	28.2	−0.3	−2.0	-	1.3	0.683
Undergraduate degree	28.6	0.1	−1.9	-	2.0	0.956
Postgraduate degree	28.3	−0.3	−2.9	-	2.3	0.843

¹ adjusted for all other independent variables.
² Joint Wald test for coefficients.
³ contrast to ’30-39 yrs’ category = 1.6(95% CI: 0.1 to 3.1, p = .036).
TCMP = Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners.
Other: included trainee medical practitioners, trainee therapists or medical practitioners in other fields for example obstetricians or surgeons who have had experience managing patients with LBP.

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