The effect of shared decision-making on recovery from non-chronic aspecific low back pain in primary care; a post-hoc analysis from the patient, physician and observer perspectives

Table 1 Baseline and recovery characteristics of all 176 patients, GP characteristics and the level of SDM

	number or mean	percentage or standard deviation (sd)	number of missing values (percentage)
*patients characteristics*
male	80	46.2%	3 (0.02%)
mean age	46.77	13.16 sd	0
educational level			7 (0.04%)
primary school educational attainment only	25	14.8%
at least secondary school educational completion	84	49.7%
at least college, university completion	60	35.5%
aAbsenteeism from work (yes/no)	70	30.3%	24 (14%)
intervention group	91	51.7%	0
*disease characteristics at baseline*
pain severity (VAS; 0–100)	48.90	15.70 sd	27 (15%)
functional disability score (RMD; 0–24)	10.03	5.75 sd	5 (0.03%)
*GP characteristics*
male	27	57%	0
mean age	51.38	7.029 sd	0
educator	33	70%	0
years’ experience as GP	18.02	7.820 sd	0
mean number of patients included	5.06	3.03 sd	0
*SDM*
observer-reported ESDM (OPTION scale; 0–100)	30.76	10.82 sd	41 (23%)
pPatient-reported SDM (scale 0–100)	78.03	36.73 sd	3 (0.02%)
GP-reported SDM (scale 0–100)	53.46	20.23 sd	8 (0.05%)
*recovery*^a
recovered at 6 weeks	101	66.45%	24 (14%)
recovered at 26 weeks^b	105	73.94%	34 (19%)

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