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Table 2 Post-hoc analysis: Interview-based versus SMS-based mean intensity of LBP over a 1 year course

From: Contrasting real time quantitative measures (weekly SMS) to patients’ retrospective appraisal of their one-year’s course of low back pain; a probing mixed-methods study

SMS-based

Interview-based

None to mild

Moderate to severe

Total

0–3

17% (4)

17% (4)

35% (8)

4–10

30% (7)

35% (8)

65% (15)

Total

48% (11)

52% (12)

100% (23)

  1. The SMS-based mean intensity calculated on basis of weeks with pain (pain-free weeks excluded). Percentages of the population with absolute numbers in parentheses and agreement indicated in bold