Table 1.
Responders characteristics of overall and sociodemographic variable of overall and underrepresented fibromyalgia patients.
| Overall 1 481 (100%) |
Non-Underrepresented 1 313 (65.07%) |
Underrepresented 1 168 (34.93%) |
p -value2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Fibromyalgia | ||||
| Time since diagnosis (Mean) | 12.72 (10.35 SD) | 13.14 (10.70 SD) | 11.95 (9.64 SD) | 0.4017 |
| Pain score | 7.84 (1.57 SD) | 7.63 (1.59 SD) | 8.26 (1.44 SD) | <0.0001 |
|
Age (mean) |
55.93 (12.72 SD) |
57.3 (12.62 SD) |
53.36 (12.54 SD) |
0.0012 |
|
Gender | ||||
| Men | 16 (3.33%) | 9 (2.88%) | 7 (4.17%) | 0.248 |
| Women |
465 (96.67%) |
304 (97.12%) |
161 (95.83%) |
|
|
Race | ||||
| Black or African American | 30 (6.51%) | 0 (0%) | 30 (18.99%) | <0.0001 |
| Other |
431 (93.49%) |
303 (100%) |
128 (81.01%) |
|
|
Ethnicity | ||||
| Hispanic | 29 (7.77%) | 0 (0%) | 29 (24.58%) | <0.0001 |
| Not Hispanic |
344 (92.23%) |
255 (100%) |
89 (75.42%) |
|
|
Income | ||||
| Low income | 102 (22.67%) | 0 (0%) | 102 (63.35%) | <0.0001 |
| Middle or High income |
348 (77.33%) |
289 (100%) |
59 (36.65%) |
|
|
Education | ||||
| Low education | 19 (3.97%) | 0 (0%) | 19 (11.38%) | <0.0001 |
| High School complete or higher |
459 (96.03%) |
311 (100%) |
148 (88.62%) |
|
|
Civil status | ||||
| Married/Cohabited | 255 (53.57%) | 199 (64.40%) | 56 (33.53%) | <0.0001 |
| Other |
221 (46.43%) |
110 (35.60%) |
111 (66.47%) |
|
|
Religion | ||||
| Yes | 393 (87.72%) | 262 (89.42%) | 131 (84.52%) | 0.132 |
| No |
55 (12.28%) |
31 (10.58%) |
24 (15.48%) |
|
|
Income | ||||
| Self-Income | 197 (41.13%) | 135 (43.41%) | 62 (36.90%) | 0.167 |
| Other |
282 (58.87%) |
176 (56.59%) |
106 (63.10%) |
|
|
Government support (Monthly) | ||||
| Yes | 199 (43.07%) | 113 (37.17%) | 86 (54.43%) | <0.0001 |
| No |
263 (56.93%) |
191 (62.83%) |
72 (45.57%) |
|
|
Employment | ||||
| Employed | 120 (25.47%) | 81 (24.20%) | 39 (23.92%) | |
| Other |
351 (74.52%) |
227 (73.70%) |
124 (76.07%) |
|
|
Housework daily | ||||
| Less than 3 h | 250 (55.07%) | 169 (56.90%) | 81 (51.59%) | 0.279 |
| 3 or more hours |
204 (44.93%) |
128 (43.10%) |
76 (48.41%) |
|
|
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bother by: Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless | ||||
| Not at all or several days | 251 (52.84%) | 169 (54.17%) | 82 (50.31%) | 0.424 |
| Nearly every day or more than half the days |
224 (47.16%) |
143 (45.83%) |
81 (49.49%) |
|
|
How often you have someone you can count on to listen to you when you need to talk about yourself? | ||||
| A little or none of the time | 166 (34.95%) | 92 (29.49%) | 74 (45.40%) | 0.001 |
| Some/most of the time or all of the time | 309 (65.05%) | 220 (70.51%) | 89 (54.60%) | |
1
Mean (SD) or Frequency (%).
2
Fisher's exact test; or t-test.