Table 1.
Inflammatory eye disease patient demographics and comparisons between OSD and Uveitis groups
| All (N=200) | OSD (N=100) | Uveitis (N=100) | P value | |
| Age (years)* | 54 (41–68) | 58 (43–71) | 51 (39–63) | 0.062 |
| Gender | 0.057 | |||
| Male | 74 | 44 | 30 | |
| Female | 126 | 56 | 70 | |
| Ethnicity† | 0.172 | |||
| White | 132 | 71 | 61 | |
| Black | 18 | 7 | 11 | |
| South Asian | 45 | 18 | 27 | |
| Mixed | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Education | 0.853 | |||
| Nil/technical skills | 66 | 35 | 31 | |
| GCSE/A levels | 92 | 45 | 47 | |
| University | 42 | 20 | 22 | |
| Employment | 0.117 | |||
| Full/part/self | 77 | 32 | 45 | |
| Student/unemployed | 31 | 16 | 15 | |
| House-wife/husband | 23 | 10 | 13 | |
| Retired | 69 | 42 | 27 | |
| Oral corticosteroid | 0.124 | |||
| No | 156 | 83 | 73 | |
| Yes | 44 | 17 | 27 | |
| Eye drops per day | <0.001‡ | |||
| None | 28 | 9 | 19 | |
| As required | 17 | 7 | 10 | |
| 1–4 times | 88 | 32 | 56 | |
| 5–7 times | 30 | 21 | 9 | |
| Up to 2 hourly | 37 | 31 | 6 |
P values are comparing the OSD and Uveitis groups and are from Fisher’s exact tests, unless stated otherwise. Bold p values are significant at p<0.05.
*Age was reported to the nearest decade, hence medians and interquartile ranges are estimated assuming an even distribution of ages within each decade. The comparison between groups treated the decade of age as an ordinal variable, and was performed using a Mann-Whitney U test.
†UK Census 2011 Classification for ethnicities.
‡P-value from a Mann-Whitney U test, as the factor is ordinal.
A Level, Advanced Level; GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; OSD, ocular surface disease.