Depression-, Pain-, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the patients.

Variable	All patients	Moderate-severe depression	No or mild depression	value
Age	46.4 (12.1)	46.4 (12.6)	46.4 (12.0)	0.83
Ethnicity
Caucasian (%)	46.5	41.9	48.5
African American (%)	50.5	51.6	50	0.54
Other (%)	3.0
Married (%)	43.4	48.4	41.2	0.50
Education (>12 yrs) (%)	63.6	51.6	69.1	0.09
Poverty (%)	37.1	54.8	28.8	0.01

A value of 0.54 was found when computing the chi square test of MSD vs. non-MSD in Caucasian vs. non-Caucasian patients.