Table 2 Prevalence of various types of long-term pain and number of pain symptoms in relationship to resilience and reported life stressors affecting the person’s life in the past year
From: Subjective perception of life stress events affects long-term pain: the role of resilience
Research groups | Resilience | Differences between groups | Life stress events affecting the respondents’ life in the past year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | ||||||
n | Mean (SD) | n | % | n | % | ||
Number of pain symptoms | |||||||
 A. No long-term problems (healthy) | 405 | 3.22 (0.69) | A–B***, A–C***, A–D***, B–D* | 360 | 88.9 | 45 | 11.1 |
 B. 1 long-term pain symptom | 616 | 2.96 (0.69) |  | 435 | 70.6 | 181 | 29.4 |
 C. 2 long-term pain symptoms | 197 | 2.79 (0.70) |  | 132 | 67.0 | 65 | 33.0 |
 D. ≥ 3 long-term pain symptoms | 42 | 2.67 (0.79) |  | 15 | 35.7 | 27 | 64.3 |
Type of long-term pain | |||||||
 Arthritis | 121 | 2.82 (0.64) |  | 82 | 67.8 | 39 | 32.2 |
 Backpain | 631 | 2.91 (0.70) |  | 422 | 66.9 | 209 | 33.1 |
 Migraine | 223 | 2.87 (0.75) |  | 148 | 66.4 | 75 | 33.6 |
 Pelvic pain | 68 | 2.71 (0.71) |  | 34 | 50.0 | 34 | 50.0 |
 Pain of unclear origin | 99 | 2.72 (0.73) |  | 61 | 61.6 | 38 | 38.4 |