Health care contact following a new incident neck or low back pain episode in the general population; the HUNT study

Table 1 Distribution of sociodemographic factors at baseline in three subgroups of persons with different health care seeking behaviors

	Conventional health care^a	Alternative health care only	No health care
	N = 93	N = 18	N = 108
Age (mean, SD)	46 (11.9)	46 (11.5)	46 (11.4)
Gender (male %)	34	39	45
Married^b(%)	58	44	63
Fulltime work (%)	60	72	62
Heavy lifting at work (%)	13	17	17
Educational level ≥ tertiary^b(%)	30	50	50

^agroup includes those who consulted both conventional and alternative health care
^bMissing values: married (4) and educational level (1). Percentages calculated among persons with non-missing values

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