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. 2007 Feb 2;5:7. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-5-7

Table 1.

Sample Details for Psychometric and Scaling Data

US (N = 148) Canadian English
(N = 66)
Canadian French
(N = 16)
French
(N = 18)
German
(N = 37)
Italian
(N = 22)
Spanish
(n = 24)
Swedish
(n = 9)
Gender Male (%) 111 (75.0) 51 (77.3) 14 (87.5) 12 (66.7) 26 (70.3) 16 (72.7) 19 (79.2) 8 (88.9)
Female (%) 37 (25.0) 15 (22.7) 2 (12.5) 6 (33.3) 11 (29.7) 6 (27.3) 5 (20.8) 1 (11.1)
Age Mean (SD) 44.7 (12.5) 39.82(10.5) 45.3 (12.0) 35.7 (8.0) 41.9 (11.8) 40.7 (10.8) 38.0 (9.0) 37.6 (9.1)
Median (IQR) 46.0
(34.0–55.0)
41.0
(32.0–45.0)
44.5
(38.3–53.8)
34.5
(30.3–42.0)
42.0
(33.0–52.5)
44.0
(34.5–49.0)
8.6
(5.7 – 17.1)
36.0
(30.5 – 45.5)
Range 18.0–71.0 18.0–69.0 28.0–69.0 25.0–55.0 23.0–62.0 21.0–58.0 3.3 – 37.4 24.0 – 52.0
Disease duration Mean (SD) 11.0 (10.3) 12.3 (7.5) 17.0 (7.5) 9.3 (8.0) 9.7 (9.1) 9.2 (9.4) 12.2 (8.9) 11.4 (9.4)
Median (IQR) 7.6
(2.4–18.3)
11.6
(5.4–18.1)
16.3
(10.3–22.6)
9.8
(4.3–13.7)
6.2
(1.9–15.4)
4.9
(1.2–18.3)
8.6
(5.7 – 17.1)
11.7
(0.5 – 19.8)
Range 0.1–48.4 0.2–40.3 5.2–30.1 0.2–17.4 0.2–35.3 0.1–28.4 3.3 – 37.4 0.1 – 25.3

IQR = interquartile Range: the distance between the 75th percentile and the 25th percentile.