Table 1.

Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients stratified by employment status

Variable	Unemployed (n = 114)	Employed (n = 146)	p value
Female sex, n (%)	95 (83.3)	100 (68.4)	0.006
Current age (mean ± SD), years	40.27 ± 1.28	40.93 ± 0.89	0.649
EDSS score, median (IQR)	2.5 (0–7.5)	2.0 (0–7.0)	< 0.001
Disease duration (mean ± SD), years	8.93 ± 0.68	8.86 ± 0.56	0.892
Years of school education (mean ± SD) years	10.86 ± 3.47	13.74 ± 0.30	< 0.001
Patients with impaired CVLTII test results, n (%)	48 (42.1)	44 (30.1)	0.045
Patients with impaired SDMT test results, n (%)	45 (42.9)	40 (27.4)	0.039
Patients with impaired BVMTR test results, n (%)	38 (33.3)	21 (26)	0.199
Patients in treatment with DMTs, n (%)	65 (57)	52 (35.61)	< 0.001
Age at diagnosis (mean ± SD), years	32.20 ± 1.14	33.31 ± 0.88	0.419