Table 3.

Patient characteristics

Characteristic	Patients (N = 200)
Age (years), mean (SD)	42 (14)
Female	101 (51%)
Employed (full-time, part-time, or self-employed)	153 (77%)
Has had psoriasis for at least 1 year/5 years/10 years	148 (74%)/60 (30%)/29 (15%)
Has had psoriatic arthritis for at least 1 year/5 years/10 years	124 (62%)/34 (17%)/12 (6%)
More than five hand areas covered with psoriasis patches in the past week	88 (44%)
Mean (SD) rating for overall skin symptom rating in the past week (0, did not affect how I felt at all; 10 severely affected how I felt)	6.8 (2.5)
Mean (SD) rating for overall joint symptom rating in the past week (0, did not affect how I felt at all; 10 severely affected how I felt)	6.4 (2.6)
Percent ever using treatment for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis (checked all that applied)
Creams, lotions, ointments, foam	84
Oral prescription medicines	54
Light therapy	27
Injectable medicines	39
Infusions at the doctor’s office	17
Other	3
None of the above	1

Data presented as n (%) unless stated otherwise

SD standard deviation