Table 4 Frequency distributions (weighted percentages) of variables related to activity restrictions, body weight, smoking, and physical activity, by country and pattern of health-care use in the past 12 months: Joint Canada/US Survey of Health, 2002–03*
United States | Canada | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Category | GP only (n = 3565) | GP+DC (n = 511) | DC only (n = 84) | GP only (n = 2434) | GP+DC (n = 397) | DC only (n = 51) |
Pain/activity limits | No pain/discomfort | 79.3 | 74.5 | 79.7 | 81.0 | 73.2 | 90.3 |
Activity restrictions | Often | 11.5 | 10.7 | 5.6 | 11.0 | 10.4 | 6.7 |
Sometimes | 19.7 | 24.6 | 23.5 | 20.2 | 27.3 | 12.3 | |
Never | 67.3 | 63.6 | 70.2 | 67.8 | 61.8 | 79.4 | |
Back/neck problems | Activity limiting | 8.9 | 16.9 | 12.8 | 10.0 | 22.2 | 5.5 |
Smoking status | Current | 20.8 | 20.4 | 15.7 | 24.0 | 19.9 | 49.6 |
Past | 24.6 | 28.3 | 29.1 | 29.2 | 34.8 | 7.6 | |
Never | 54.0 | 50.9 | 55.2 | 46.5 | 44.9 | 42.9 | |
Body weight | Under/normal weight | 42.5 | 40.9 | 37.7 | 48.7 | 46.5 | 55.5 |
Overweight | 32.4 | 31.4 | 41.6 | 32.3 | 35.4 | 34.1 | |
Obese | 20.8 | 23.7 | 18.3 | 15.4 | 15.7 | 8.6 | |
Physical activity (past 3 months) | Active | 20.4 | 22.6 | 18.5 | 25.7 | 27.8 | 21.5 |
Moderate | 20.0 | 21.2 | 18.2 | 26.3 | 25.7 | 21.7 | |
Inactive | 56.5 | 54.3 | 60.7 | 47.0 | 45.6 | 56.8 | |
Activity frequency (past 3 months) | Regular | 55.6 | 56.1 | 56.5 | 66.3 | 68.3 | 58.6 |
Occasional | 16.1 | 19.2 | 13.2 | 15.8 | 18.6 | 17.4 | |
Infrequent | 25.2 | 22.8 | 27.7 | 16.8 | 12.2 | 24.0 | |