Skip to main content

Table 1 Participant characteristics (n = 154)

From: Validating online approaches for rare disease research using latent class mixture modeling

 

Males (n = 99)

Females (n = 55)

Total (n = 154)

Sociodemographics

Age (years)

Mean ± SD (range)

36.8 ± 10.8

(19–65)

35.2 ± 9.7

(18–68)

36.2 ± 10.5

(18–68)

Education (n, %)

 High school

33 (33%)

10 (18%)

43 (28%)

 University

35 (35%)

16 (29%)

51 (33%)

 Post-graduate

31 (31%)

29 (53%)

60 (39%)

 Not reported

0

1 (< 1%)

1 (< 1%)

Relationship status (n, %)

 Never been in a relationship

23 (23%)

4 (7%)

27 (18%)

 Single

24 (24%)

9 (16%)

33 (21%)

 Dating/in a relationship

15 (15%)

14 (25%)

29 (19%)

 Married

36 (36%)

21 (38%)

57 (37%)

 Divorced

1 (1%)

7 (13%)

8 (5%)

Clinical information

Age at diagnosis (years)

Mean ± SD (range)

17.7 ± 5.9

(neonatal—32)

20.7 ± 7.4

(10–48)

18.8 ± 6.6

(neonatal—48)

Seen at AMC (n, %)

50 (51%)

34 (62%)

84 (55%)

Genetic counseling ever (n, %)

12 (12%)

11 (20%)

33 (21%)

Genetic testing ever (n, %)

42 (42%)

25 (45%)

67 (44%)

Patient-reported outcomes

IPQR consequences

(dimension range 5–30)

21.2 ± 4.0

(10–30)

20.0 ± 5.1

(6–30)

20.8 ± 4.5

(6–30)

IPQR emotional representations

(dimension range 5–30)

19.3 ± 5.7

(6–30)

17.8 ± 6.2

(6–30)

18.8 ± 5.9

(6–30)

IPQR illness coherence

(dimension range 5–25)

18.2 ± 4.4

(6–25)

16.4 ± 4.7

(5–25)

17.6 ± 4.6

(5–25)

Zung SDS

(dimension range 20–80)

43.5 ± 12.0

(20–70)

41.6 ± 11.4

(22–68)

42.8 ± 11.8

(20–70)

  1. AMC academic medical center, IPQR Illness Perception Questionairre Revised, SDS self-rating depression scale