Cost of Illness for Patients with Arthritis Receiving Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Care
Table 2
Sociodemographic and health variables at baseline for the total sample and for each of the diagnostic subgroups at hospital departments and rehabilitation centres .
ALL
Inflamm. disease hospital
Inflamm. disease outpatient hospital
Inflamm. disease rehab centre
OA conventional rehab centre
OA postsurgery rehab
Age (y), mean (SD)
60.7 (9.6)
54.4 (11.2)
51.6 (11.2)
58.2 (9.5)
60.7 (8.1)
64.9 (7.1)
Female, (%)
229 (74.8)
26 (54.2)
10 (71.4)
48 (96.0)
61 (96.8)
84 (64.1)
Married/cohabitant, (%)
213 (69.6)
35 (74.5)
11 (78.5)
32 (66.7)
38 (60.3)
97 (75.8)
Education, (%)
≤9 years
77 (25.2)
15 (31.9)
5 (35.7)
13 (26.5)
15 (24.2)
29 (22.8)
≤12 years
70 (22.9)
11 (23.4)
3 (21.4)
11 (22.4)
18 (29.0)
27 (21.3)
>12 years
152 (49.7)
21 (44.7)
6 (42.9)
25 (51.0)
29 (46.8)
71 (55.9)
Missing
7
1
—
1
1
4
Work situation, (%)
Employed
40 (13.2)
10 (21.3)
7 (50.0)
6 (12.2)
8 (12.7)
9 (7.0)
Employed, but on sick leave
50 (16.3)
4 (8.5)
4 (28.6)
4 (8.2)
10 (15.9)
28 (21.7)
Disability pension
111 (36.3)
23 (48.9)
2 (14.3)
29 (59.2)
29 (46.0)
25 (19.4)
Age pension
99 (32.4)
7 (14.9)
1 (7.1)
9 (18.4)
16 (25.4)
65 (50.4)
Homeworker
4 (1.3)
2 (4.2)
0
0
0
2 (1.6)
Unemployed
2 (0.7)
1 (2.1)
0
1 (2.0)
0
0
Missing
4
1
—
1
—
2
Co-morbidity, (%)
None
52 (17.0)
14 (29.2)
5 (35.7)
4 (8.0)
5 (7.9)
24 (18.3)
One
106 (34.6)
17 (35.4)
4 (28.6)
19 (38.0)
11 (17.5)
55 (42.0)
Two or more
148 (48.4)
17 (35.4)
5 (35.7)
27 (54.0)
47 (74.6)
52 (39.7)
Daily use pain medication, (%)
152 (49.7)
23 (53.5)
15 (35.7)
23 (53.5)
3 (30.0)
20 (31.7)
Daily use anti-inflammatory medication, (%)
93 (30.4)
24 (58.5)
6 (54.5)
17 (44.7)
36 (45.0)
93 (43.3)
Daily use relaxing/sleeping med, (%)
51 (16.7)
5 (13.5)
2 (22.2)
12 (30.8)
12 (21.8)
20 (23.0)
Assistive tools, mean (SD)
0.9 (1.8)
1.2 (2.0)
1.9 (2.8)
0.8 (1.7)
0.5 (1.4)
1.0 (1.7)
Days of rehab stay mean (SD)
21.3 (6.2)
16.7 (5.8)
11.9 (2.0)
26.7 (5.9)
25.5 (4.8)
19.8 (3.8)
MHAQ1, mean (SD)
.77 (.48)
.71 (.46)
.49 (.43)
.63 (.46)
.65 (.45)
.94 (.46)
SF36 physical sum score2, mean (SD)
30.5 (8.9)
34.1 (10.8)
38.3 (8.5)
31.4 (8.1)
30.5 (9.0)
27.8 (7.5)
SF36 mental sum scores2, mean (SD)
49.1 (12.7)
47.7 (13.1)
42.6 (13.2)
46.1 (12.3)
48.3 (12.8)
52.0 (12.2)
OA: osteoarthritis; rehab: rehabilitation. 1MHAQ score 0–3, best possible score, worst possible score. 2SF-36 sum scores, score 0–100, worst possible score, best possible score. 3-values refer to ANOVA analysis for continuous variables and Chi-square for categorical variable.
