Table 2 Association between socioeconomic variables and back pain in the over-indebted OI-cohort and the general population of the GNT-HIS
From: Over-indebtedness and its association with the prevalence of back pain
| Â | OI-survey (n = 949) | GNT-HIS (n = 8318) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Total | Â | Back pain | Â | Unadjusted odds ratios | Total | Â | Back pain | Â | Unadjusted odds ratios | ||
| Â | n = 949 | % | n = 767 | % | OR | 95%CI | n = 8318 | % | N = 1849 | % | OR | 95%CI |
Nationality | ||||||||||||
German | 904 | 95.3 | 735 | 81.3 | Â | Â | 8018 | 96.4 | 1784 | 22.2 | Â | Â |
other | 33 | 3.5 | 25 | 75.8 | 0.72 | 0.32-1.62 | 300 | 3.6 | 65 | 21.7 | 0.97 | 0.73-1.28 |
Family status | ||||||||||||
married and living together | 281 | 29.6 | 236 | 84.0 | Â | Â | 4639 | 55.8 | 1070 | 23.1 | Â | Â |
married and living alone | 71 | 7.5 | 59 | 83.1 | 0.94 | 0.47-1.88 | 203 | 2.4 | 51 | 25.1 | 1.12 | 0.81-1.55 |
single | 297 | 31.3 | 222 | 74.7 | 0.56 | 0.37-0.85 | 2126 | 25.6 | 357 | 16.8 | 0.67 | 0.59-0.77 |
divorced | 256 | 27.0 | 212 | 82.8 | 0.92 | 0.58-1.45 | 692 | 8.3 | 187 | 27.0 | 1.24 | 1.03-1.48 |
widowed | 37 | 3.9 | 33 | 89.2 | 1.57 | 0.53-4.66 | 640 | 7.7 | 179 | 28.0 | 1.30 | 1.08-1.56 |
School education | ||||||||||||
Hauptschule e. g. expanded primary school | 461 | 48.6 | 378 | 82.0 | Â | Â | 2412 | 29.0 | 658 | 27.3 | Â | Â |
no graduation | 95 | 10.0 | 72 | 75.8 | 0.69 | 0.41-1.16 | 64 | 0.8 | 20 | 31.3 | 1.21 | 0.71-2.07 |
secondary school | 256 | 27.0 | 212 | 82.8 | 1.06 | 0.71-1.58 | 2167 | 26.1 | 488 | 22.5 | 0.78 | 0.68-0.89 |
technical college orgrammar school | 84 | 8.9 | 67 | 79.8 | 0.87 | 0.48-1.55 | 3383 | 40.7 | 625 | 18.5 | 0.60 | 0.53-0.68 |
Professional education | ||||||||||||
apprentice-ship | 462 | 48.7 | 380 | 82.3 | Â | Â | 2927 | 35.2 | 692 | 23.6 | Â | Â |
no professional education | 237 | 25.0 | 189 | 79.7 | 0.85 | 0.57-1.26 | 745 | 9.0 | 219 | 29.4 | 1.35 | 1.12-1.61 |
vocational school | 82 | 8.6 | 65 | 79.3 | 0.83 | 0.46-1.48 | 1133 | 13.6 | 288 | 25.4 | 1.10 | 0.94-1.29 |
university | 89 | 9.4 | 76 | 85.4 | 1.26 | 0.67-2.38 | 2735 | 32.9 | 518 | 18.9 | 0.76 | 0.66-0.86 |
Status of employment | ||||||||||||
full-time | 210 | 22.1 | 173 | 82.4 | Â | Â | 3809 | 45.8 | 698 | 18.3 | Â | Â |
apprentice-ship | 18 | 1.9 | 15 | 83.3 | 1.067 | 0.30-3.88 | 245 | 2.9 | 30 | 12.2 | 0.62 | 0.42-0.92 |
(early) retirement | 101 | 10.6 | 86 | 85.1 | 1.23 | 0.64-2.36 | 1713 | 20.6 | 474 | 27.7 | 1.71 | 1.49-1.95 |
unemployed | 290 | 30.6 | 232 | 80.0 | 0.86 | 0.54-1.35 | 323 | 3.9 | 102 | 31.6 | 2.06 | 1.60-2.64 |
homemaker | 148 | 15.6 | 114 | 77.0 | 0.72 | 0.43-1.21 | 685 | 8.2 | 188 | 27.4 | 1.69 | 1.40-2.03 |
part-time | 107 | 11.3 | 88 | 82.2 | 0.99 | 0.54-1.82 | 1535 | 18.5 | 357 | 23.3 | 1.35 | 1.17-1.56 |