Participation and social functioning in patients with fibromyalgia: development and testing of a new questionnaire

Table 5 Responsiveness of FPQ scales and other instruments in subgroups (standardized response mean)

	Participation in social life FPQ-S		Participation in daily life FPQ-D		Participation in work-life FPQ-W		FIQ-G (Physical scale)		PDI		Satisfaction with participation in social roles (SR-G)		Satisfaction with partici-pation in discretionary social activities (DSA-G)
	3 m	6 m	3 m	6 m	3 m	6 m	3 m	6 m	3 m	6 m	3 m	6 m	3 m	6 m
Total	0.47	0.27	0.45	0.28	0.52	0.42	0.37	0.18	0.53	0.37	0.45	0.19	0.30	0.18
Sex
Male (N_max = 19)	0.20	0.16	0.36	0.33	0.79	0.44	0.55	0.60	0.12	0.54	0.37	0.48	0.60	0.56
Female (N_max = 192)	0.49	0.27	0.46	0.27	0.49	0.42	0.35	0.14	0.57	0.37	0.47	0.16	0.28	0.14
Age
<50 years (N_max = 71)	0.33	0.32	0.35	0.34	0.48	0.65	0.25	0.05	0.60	0.57	0.46	0.22	0.39	0.49
50-55 years (N_max = 59)	0.61	0.30	0.57	0.19	0.78	0.25	0.56	0.34	0.55	0.34	0.48	0.11	0.26	0.23
>55 years (N_max = 82)	0.47	0.17	0.45	0.28	0.37	0.33	0.32	0.22	0.42	0.23	0.42	0.22	0.22	0.14
Education
Elementary school (N_max = 70)	0.50	0.42	0.40	0.41	0.43	0.30	0.38	0.22	0.41	0.31	0.37	0.21	0.31	0.31
Secondary school (N_max = 85)	0.48	0.13	0.56	0.17	0.60	0.47	0.35	0.07	0.69	0.26	0.43	0.09	0.31	0.06
University-entrance diploma or technical college qualification (N_max = 48)	0.39	0.25	0.42	0.24	0.54	0.45	0.33	0.21	0.43	0.53	0.49	0.16	0.29	0.20
Chronification
<5 years (N_max = 43)	0.46	0.44	0.35	0.61	0.65	0.87	0.06	0.25	0.54	0.72	0.15	0.33	0.11	0.20
5-10 years (N_max = 39)	0.48	0.04	0.47	−0.04	0.57	0.35	0.47	0.15	0.68	0.30	0.89	0.26	0.53	0.15
>10 years (N_max = 115)	0.40	0.21	0.49	0.25	0.46	0.24	0.44	0.14	0.48	0.25	0.42	0.03	0.25	0.08

3 m/6 m: 3 months/6 months after end of rehabilitation; values > =0.40 are printed in bold.

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