Gender Differences in Symptoms, Health-Related Quality of Life, Sleep Quality, Mental Health, Cognitive Performance, Pain-Cognition, and Positive Health in Spanish Fibromyalgia Individuals: The Al-Ándalus Project

Table 1

Clinical and sociodemographic variables in women and men, separated by the presence or absence of fibromyalgia.

	Fibromyalgia			Nonfibromyalgia
	Women ()	Men ()		Women ()	Men ()
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Age, years	49.0 (6.0)	46.9 (8.4)	0.074	50.0 (8.1)	48.1 (10.6)	0.332
Body mass index, kg/cm^2	28.2 (5.8)	28.1 (4.8)	0.880	26.6 (4.3)	28.5 (3.8)	0.001
	(%)	(%)		(%)	(%)
Marital status			0.009			0.003
Married	279 (76.0)	13 (61.9)		170 (73.6)	38 (71.7)
Single	33 (9.0)	7 (33.3)		23 (10.0)	14 (26.4)
Separated	10 (2.7)	0 (0.0)		13 (5.6)	0 (0.0)
Divorced	31 (8.4)	1 (4.8)		15 (6.5)	1 (1.9)
Widow(er)	14 (3.8)	0 (0.0)		10 (4.3)	0 (0.0)
Educational level			0.855			0.281
No studies/primary school	196 (53.4)	10 (47.7)		103 (44.4)	21 (39.7)
Secondary school	114 (31.1)	7 (33.3)		75 (32.3)	23 (43.4)
University degree	57 (15.5)	4 (19.0)		54 (23.2)	9 (16.9)
Current occupational status			<0.001			<0.001
Working	109 (29.7)	3 (14.3)		95 (40.9)	31 (58.5)
Housewife	102 (27.8)	0 (0.0)		82 (35.3)	0 (0.0)
Not working	156 (42.5)	18 (85.7)		55 (23.7)	22 (41.5)
Time since diagnosis			0.640
Less than 5 years	173 (47.1)	11 (52.4)
More than 5 years	194 (55.8)	10 (50.0)

SD, standard deviation.