Osteoarthritis: quality of life, comorbidities, medication and health service utilization assessed in a large sample of primary care patients

Table 6 Correlations between sociodemographic and disease characteristics with "pain and disability"

	Spearman's' rho	p
Sociodemographics
Age	0.052	0.129
Marital status	-0.069	0.028
Gender	0.096	0.002
Education	-0.076	0.016
IPAQ sum score	-0.033	0.346
BMI	0.157	<0.001
Health service utilization
GP contacts	0.251	<0.001
Visits to Orthopedics	0.238	<0.001
Visits to healers	0.007	0.831
Amount of performed X-rays	0.254	<0.001
Physiotherapy	0.207	<0.001
Amount of prescriptions	0.178	<0.001
Disease characteristics
Duration of OA	0.269	<0.001
Amount of comorbidities	0.221	<0.001
PHQ-9 sum score	0.475	<0.001
Quality of life/AIMS2-Sf scales
Upper body	0.398	0.001
Affect	0.472	0.001
Social	0.212	<0.001
Work	-0.018	0.569

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