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Table 3 Psychologically informed physical therapy (PIPT) course participant characteristics (n = 471)

From: Targeted interventions to prevent transitioning from acute to chronic low back pain in high-risk patients: development and delivery of a pragmatic training course of psychologically informed physical therapy for the TARGET trial

 

Total sample

(n = 471)

Pittsburgh, PA

(n = 77)

Boston, MA

(n = 61)

Salt Lake City, UT

(n = 80)

Baltimore, MD

(n = 111)

Charleston, SC

(n = 142)

P Value*

Age (years)

38.1 (11.0)

40.3 (11.2)

32.4 (8.1)

39.3 (10.3)

36.9 (11.2)

39.5 (11.4)

< 0.001

Years in practice

11.4 (10.6)

14.6 (11.5)

6.1 (7.0)

11.0 (10.4)

10.9 (11.4)

12.6 (10.2)

< 0.001

PABS-PT biomedical (pre-training)

31.0 (6.8)

30.3 (6.5)

30.4 (7.6)

28.2 (6.8)

31.0 (6.8)

33.2 (6.0)

< 0.001

PABS-PT biomedical (post-training)

25.2 (7.2)

26.0 (7.0)

24.3 (7.6)

23.1 (6.8)

25.2 (7.1)

26.2 (7.4)

0.032

PABS-PT behavioral (pre-training)

36.9 (3.7)

36.6 (3.2)

36.9 (4.2)

38.3 (3.8)

37.1 (3.3)

36.1 (3.7)

0.001

PABS-PT behavioral (post-training)

41.3 (4.2)

40.1 (3.8)

41.7 (5.2)

41.7 (4.3)

41.7 (4.4)

41.2 (3.5)

0.067

Confidence (pre-training)

4.8 (2.2)

4.8 (2.1)

4.6 (2.3)

4.9 (2.2)

5.1 (2.3)

4.5 (2.2)

0.292

Confidence (post-training)

7.3 (1.9)

7.0 (1.7)

5.6 (3.1)

7.4 (1.8)

7.8 (1.2)

7.7 (1.4)

< 0.001

  1. Results are shown as mean (standard deviation)
  2. PABS-PT Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physical Therapists
  3. *One-way analysis of variance to compare between TARGET site locations