Silent Burdens in Disease: Fatigue and Depression in SLE

Table 1

Sociodemographic characterization.

	Total; 𝑛=148	SLE (1); 𝑛=50	Depression (2); 𝑛=45	Controls (3); 𝑛=53	𝑃	Post hoc analysis
Age (years)^a	44.5 (11.6)	44.1 (10.1)	41.7 (13.7)	47.2 (11.8)	0.108^c
Education (years)^a	10.7 (4.8)	9.1 (3.9)	13.0 (4.2)	10.9 (5.4)	0.001^c	2>1, 3
Marital status^b
Single	26 (17.6)	8 (16.0)	10 (22.2)	8 (15.1)
Married	101 (68.2)	38 (76.0)	25 (55.6)	38 (71.7)
Divorced	15 (10.1)	2 (4.0)	9 (20.0)	4 (7.5)	0.254^d
Widow	4 (2.7)	1 (2.0)	1 (2.2)	2 (3.6)
Common-law marriage	2 (1.4)	1 (2.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (1.9)
Employment status^b
Active	86 (58.1)	15 (30.0)	27 (60.0)	44 (83.0)	0.000^d
Nonactive	62 (41.9)	35 (70.0)	18 (40.0)	9 (17.0)

aMean (standard deviation), ^b𝑛 (%), ^cANOVA, ^dChi-square test.