TABLE 6.

Cognitive Interview Participants

	Emotional Distress	Fatigue	Social Function	Physical Function	Pain
No. interviews	34	29	22	18	52
Total participants	33	22	21	18	44
Female, %	64	55	40	67	59
Ethnicity, %
Hispanic	0	0	0	6	9
Race, %
White	76	50	71	67	82
African American	24	50	19	11	7
Asian	0	0	0	22	7
American Indian/Alaska Native	0	0	5	0	0
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	2
Multiple races	0	0	5	0	2
Age, mean (range)	42 (20–60)	63 (38–83)	66 (39–86)	70 (48–93)	46 (18–83)
Education
% ≤8th grade	0	5	19	6	2
% 9th–11th grade	0	27	14	6	2
% 12th grade/GED	21	18	5	22	9
% Some college	36	18	14	22	34
% College degree	15	14	14	28	27
% Advanced degree	27	18	33	17	25
Populations sampled	Outpatient psychiatric	Internal medicine outpatients; musculoskeletal disease registry	Internal medicine outpatients; musculoskeletal disease registry	Osteoarthritis; rheumatoid arthritis; aging cohort	Rehabilitation
Self-rated level of severity/impairment of domain, %
None	12	9	14	Missing data	5
Mild	36	32	29		30
Moderate	48	26	33		50
Severe	3	18	24		16
WRAT-3 Reading Standard Score, mean (range)	47 (31–57)	47 (25–57)	46 (23–57)	Missing data	50 (35–57)
% <9th grade	30	24	29		7
Cognitive impairment, %					16

WRAT-3 indicates Wide Range Achievement Test 3. Only the reading subtest was used to identify approximate reading level of respondents. Cognitive impairment was caused by stroke (n = 3), traumatic brain injury (n = 3), and with brain damage secondary hypoxemia (n = 1).