Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of initial validation sample
| Characteristics | N=233 |
|---|---|
| Demographic | |
| Age | 44.0 (13.2)a |
| Gender | |
| Male | 29.8% (71) |
| Female | 70.2% (167) |
| Race | |
| Caucasian | 93.8% (225) |
| African American | 0.8% (2) |
| Asian | 1.3% (3) |
| American Indian/Alaskan Native | 0.8% (2) |
| Multi-racial | 2.1% (5) |
| Other | 1.3% (3) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Hispanic | 3.0% (8) |
| Non-Hispanic | 97.0% (219 |
| Education | |
| Less than college degree | 26.2% (62) |
| College degree or higher | 73.8% (175) |
| Income | |
| Less than $50,000 per year | 28.9% (67) |
| More than $50,000 per year | 71.1% (165) |
| Recruitment source | |
| Outpatient clinic | 17.6% (42) |
| Online | 82.4% (191) |
| Clinical variable | |
| Diagnosis | |
| Achalasia | 12.9% (30) |
| Barrett’s esophagus | 5.6% (13) |
| Dysphagia NOS | 2.6% (6) |
| Eosinophilic esophagitis | 24.0% (56) |
| GERD | 45.9% (107) |
| More than 1 of the above | 9.0% (21) |
| Illness severity (out of 10) | 6.72 (2.06) |
| Symptom control past month (out of 10) | 7.39 (2.52) |
| Treatment effectiveness (out of 10) | 7.63 (2.58) |
| Treatment satisfaction (out of 10) | 7.56 (2.75) |
| Satisfaction with MD relationship (out of 10) | 7.94 (2.94) |
| Treatment adherence past week (out of 100%) | 83.22 (24.89) |
| Number of outpatient visits past year | 2.91 (4.79) |
| Number of endoscopies past year | 0.91 (1.29) |
| Number of current medications | 1.16 (0.86) |
| Current dietary treatment | 39.1% (91) |
| History of seeing dietitian for illness | 19.1% (45) |
| History of seeing therapist for Illness | 6.8% (16) |
GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease.
a
Mean (s.d).