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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants

From: Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment questionnaire in patients with skeletal muscle injury of the upper or lower extremities

Characteristics

N = 339

Age (years) (Mean, SD)

46, 16.0

BMI (Mean, SD)

23.5, 3.6

Gender (%)

 

 Male

180 (53.1)

 Female

159 (46.9)

Marital status (%)

 

 Single

78 (23.0)

 Married or with partner

238 (70.2)

 Divorced

12 (3.5)

 Widowed

11 (3.2)

Educational level (%)

 

 Elementary school

114 (33.6)

 High school

94 (27.7)

 College or higher

131 (38.6)

Other chronic disease (%)

91 (26.8)

Injury location (%)

 

 Upper limb (Shoulder/Elbow/Arm/wrist/hand)

76 (22.4)

 Upper leg/Hip/ Pelvis

65 (19.2)

 Lower leg/Knee

127 (37.5)

 Ankle/foot

60 (17.7)

 Hip and Upper limb

2 (0.6)

 Knee and Upper limb

5 (1.5)

 Hip and Knee

1 (0.3)

 Hip and Knee and Upper limb

1 (0.3)

 Knee and Ankle/foot

2 (0.6)

Diagnosis (%)

 

 Fracture

27 (8.0)

 Arthritis

78 (23.0)

 Bruise or/and trauma

65 (19.2)

 Other

169 (49.9)

Received relevant operation

151 (44.5)

  1. A total of 339 patients were involving in our study. All values, except for age and BMI (mean ± standard deviation), are given as the number of patients, with the percentage in parentheses