Educational needs by age, gender, disease duration, educational background and disease§
| Domain (score range) | Patients | Disease | Age | Gender | Disease duration | Educational background | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Older | Younger | Male | Female | Longer | Shorter | Lower | Higher | |||
| Managing pain (0–24) | AS | 14.3±5.3 | 14.3±4.5 | 14.6±5.9 | 13.3±4.8* | 15.6±5.5* | 14.3±5.6 | 13.9±4.1 | 13.6±3.9 | 14.5±5.9 |
| PsA | 13.3±6.4 | 12.3±7.0 | 14.2±5.5 | 12.3±6.5 | 14.0±6.1 | 13.0±6.7 | 14.4±5.3 | 11.9±6.9 | 15.7±5.7 | |
| Movement (0–20) | AS | 10.6±3.9 | 10.9±3.4 | 10.4±4.3 | 9.7±3.6* | 11.8±3.9* | 10.9±3.9 | 9.5±3.3 | 11.0±3.3* | 8.6±3.7* |
| PsA | 10.5±4.8 | 9.9±4.6 | 11.1±4.9 | 10.0±4.8 | 10.8±4.6 | 10.1±4.8 | 11.4±4.8 | 9.7±5.0 | 12.4±4.3 | |
| Feelings (0–16) | AS | 9.6±3.8 | 9.5±3.4 | 9.5±4.0 | 8.6±3.8* | 10.9±3.3* | 9.8±3.6 | 9.0±4.2 | 10.6±3.1* | 8.0±4.2* |
| PsA | 9.5±3.5 | 9.0±3.6 | 11.1±4.9 | 8.3±3.3* | 10.6±3.3* | 9.3±3.3 | 10.2±3.9 | 9.0±3.6* | 11.4±4.8* | |
| Disease process (0–28) | AS | 18.2±5.6 | 17.7±5.5 | 18.9±5.4 | 17.6±5.6 | 19.1±5.5 | 18.3±5.7 | 19.0±5.3 | 17.6±5.6 | 17.8±5.2 |
| PsA | 17.6±6.2 | 17.0±6.8 | 18.3±5.7 | 16.5±6.1* | 18.6±6.0* | 17.0±6.0* | 19.8±6.3* | 17.2±6.6 | 17.0±6.1 | |
| Treatments (0–28) | AS | 14.6±5.2 | 14.0±4.3 | 14.9±5.9 | 14.0±5.1 | 15.4±5.2 | 14.4±5.3 | 15.0±5.1 | 15.5±3.9 | 12.9±6.5 |
| PsA | 12.9±5.2 | 12.4±5.0 | 13.4±5.5 | 12.8±5.3 | 13.0±5.2 | 12.6±5.0 | 13.3±6.0 | 12.5±5.4 | 14.0±7.2 | |
| Self-help measures (0–24) | AS | 14.8±5.3# | 13.5±5.2* | 16.1±5.3* | 14.0±5.2* | 16.0±5.3* | 14.8±5.2 | 14.9±5.7 | 13.2±4.6 | 14.4±6.2 |
| PsA | 12.8±6.1# | 11.9±6.7 | 13.9±5.5 | 11.5±6.3* | 14.0±5.5* | 12.6±6.0 | 14.3±6.1 | 11.7±6.3* | 16.8±6.1* | |
| Support systems (0–16) | AS | 9.3±3.6# | 9.0±3.3 | 9.7±3.7 | 8.8±3.6 | 10.1±3.5 | 9.6±3.4 | 8.8±3.6 | 9.6±3.2 | 8.2±3.1 |
| PsA | 7.3±3.8# | 7.3±4.3 | 7.5±3.5 | 6.6±3.5 | 7.9±3.9 | 7.4±3.8 | 7.5±3.5 | 7.3±4.3 | 6.7±3.4 | |
| Total ENAT score (0–156) | AS | 88.6±23.2# | 84.9±18.5 | 91.9±26.4 | 83.4±23.1* | 96.0±21.5* | 88.8±24.2 | 88.3±21.1 | 89.6±18.4 | 82.2±26.5 |
| PsA | 79.7±26.5# | 73.8±26.7* | 85.3±25.5* | 75.8±28.6 | 83.7±23.6 | 77.2±26.1 | 87.8±26.0 | 73.6±26.7* | 93.9±32.9* | |
§Values are mean ± standard desviation; age subgroups based on median split; disease duration categories based on split at 25th percentile. *Significant p-value (<0.05) for that parameter within disease, #Significant p-value (<0.05) for difference between diseases groups.