The relationship between the psychological stress of adolescents in school and the prevalence of chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study in China

Table 1 Prevalence of CLBP in college students by demographic factors

	N	Prevalence (%)	p-value	OR (95% CI)
Sex			< 0.001
Male	3949	24.08	–	1
Female	4715	28.70	< 0.001	1.271 (1.154–1.400)
Major			< 0.001
Engineering	3141	23.94	–	1
Arts	1320	26.67	0.054	1.155 (0.997–1.338)
Science	1371	24.36	0.761	1.023 (0.882–1.187)
Agriculture	76	39.47	0.002	2.072 (1.299–3.306)
Business	740	30.27	< 0.001	1.379 (1.155–1.646)
Medicine	1417	29.57	< 0.001	1.334 (1.159–1.535)
Other	599	32.55	< 0.001	1.533 (1.269–1.853)
Year of study			< 0.001
Freshman, sophomore	6561	24.71	–	1
Junior, senior	1386	30.38	< 0.001	1.330 (1.170–1.510)
Master’s level	423	34.28	< 0.001	1.590 (1.290–1.958)
Doctoral level	294	40.48	< 0.001	2.072 (1.631–2.633)

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