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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2019 Nov 15;47(7):1019–1025. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.181365

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of participants (n=2329) according to sleep quality, a single item in the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in the past 7 days

Sleep quality in past week in the PSQI

Baseline characteristics 0,1=Poor 2=Fairly good 3 =Very good
Number of participants, n (%) 414 (17.8) 1296 (55.6) 619 (26.6)
Age (years), mean (SD) 60.2 (7.7) 62.3 (7.9) 63.0 (7.6)
BMI (kg/m2), mean (SD) 31.9 (7.0) 30.8 (5.9) 30.5 (5.9)
White, n (%) 345 (83.3) 1103 (85.1) 515 (83.2)
Women, n (%) 289 (69.8) 776 (59.9) 344 (55.6)
Education level (College and above), n (%) 165 (39.9) 588 (45.4) 319 (51.5)
Currently work for pay, n (%) 178 (43) 583 (45) 286 (46)
Tobacco smoking pack-years, mean (SD) 8.8 (18.2) 8.6 (16.9) 9.4 (18.5)
Level of fatigue, median (interquartile range) 5 (3,7) 3 (2,5) 2 (1, 3)
Charlson comorbidity index, mean (SD) 0.7 (1.3) 0.5 (1.0) 0.4 (0.8)
High depressive symptoms1 (yes), n (%) 127 (30.7) 121 (9.3) 12 (3.4)
WOMAC2 pain score, median (interquartile range) 3 (1, 7) 2 (0, 5) 1 (0, 3)
Prescription use of NSAID3s, n (%) 76 (18.5) 168 (13.0) 73 (11.8)
Widespread pain (presence), n (%) 235 (56.8) 558 (43.1) 163 (26.3)
Prevalence of radiographic knee OA4 (yes), n (%) 444 (56.4) 1414 (56.2) 636 (52.8)
1

High depressive symptom was defined based on the CES-D ≥16 (reference 22)

2

The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index

3

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

4

Radiographic knee OA was defined as a Kallgren Lawrence grade ≥2 present in a knee.