Table 1.
Participant characteristics.
| Characteristics (mean (SD) or n (%)) |
Surveys
|
Debriefing Interviews** | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthritis* Clinic | Arthritis Community | ||
| N | 52 | 200 | 32 |
| Age (years) | 53 (14) | 51 (12) | 54 (13) |
| Female | 45 (87%) | 167 (84%) | 23 (72%) |
| White | 46 (89%) | 186 (94%) | 18 (56%) |
| Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity | 2 (4%) | 11 (6%) | 3 (9%) |
| Education > High school | 36 (69%) | 185 (93%) | 31 (97%) |
| Disabled due to RA | 8 (15%) | 63 (32%) | 5 (16%) |
| Use of aids or disability-related devices | 26 (50%) | 136 (68%) | 15 (50%) |
| Region*** | |||
| Northeast | 100% | 34% | 24 (75%) |
| South | 18% | 8 (25%) | |
| Midwest | 13% | ||
| West | 27% | ||
| Outside US | 8% | ||
| Urban | 33 (64%) | 147 (74%) | 23 (72%) |
| RA Disease duration (years) | 15 (11) | 10 (10) | 13 (10) |
| Patient Global Disease Activity (0–100) | 34 (30) | 57 (23) | 34 (26) |
| PROMIS Fatigue 7a T-Score | 54.8 (13.6) | 65.6 (8.1) | 53.2 (9.9) |
| PROMIS Fatigue 8a T-Score | 54.6 (11.2) | 66.0 (7.8) | 55.3 (10.3) |
*
Recruited from Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, Baltimore, MD.
**
Recruited from inflammatory arthritis clinics at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD (n=12); Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY (n=12); and University of Alabama at Birmingham (n=8).
***
Based on U.S. census regions.