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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants in the three samples

From: Only two subscales of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire are culturally relevant for people with chronic low back pain in Nigerian Igbo populations: a cross-cultural adaptation and validation study

 

Age

Gender

Marital status

Main occupation

Religion

Education (years completed)

Literacy

Habitation

Cross-cultural adaptation (pilot/pre-testing) sample; n = 12

45 years (SD 10.36)

Male: 7 (58.3%)

Married: 11 (91.7%)

Single: 1 (8.3%)

Non-manual workers: 5 (41.7%)

Manual workers: 7 (58.3%)

Pentecostal: 10 (83.3%)

Catholic: 2 (16.7%)

10.0 (3.7)

Illiterate: 4 (33.3%)

English: 6 (50%)

English/Igbo: 2 (16.7%)

Rural

Test–retest reliability sample; n = 50

45.2 years (SD 11.55)

Male: 18 (36.0%)

Married: 37 (74.0%)

Single: 8 (16.0%)

Widowed: 4 (8.0%)

Separated: 1 (2.0%)

Paid Non-manual: 25 (50.0%)

Self-employed business/farming: 19 (38.0%)

Keeping house/homemaker: 2 (4.0%)

Student: 2 (4.0%)

Non-paid work/volunteer/charity: 1 (2.0%)

 

13.3 (7.14)

 

Urban: 30 (60.0%)

Rural: 20 (40.0%)

Construct validity sample; n = 200

48.6 years (SD 12.0)

Male: 112 (44.0%)

Married: 143 (71.5%)

Widowed: 31 (15.5%)

Single: 22 (11.0%)

Cohabiting: 2 (1.0%)

Separated: 2 (1.0%)

Self-employed business/farming: 125 (62.5%)

Paid Non-manual: 31 (15.5%)

Non-paid work/volunteer/charity: 16 (8.0%)

Keeping house/homemaker: 13 (6.5%)

Student: 7 (3.5%)

Unemployed (health reasons): 4 (2.0%)

Unemployed (other reasons): 3 (1.5%)

Retired: 1 (0.5%)

 

7.0 (6.4)

 

Rural: 200 (100%)