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Table 1 Patient demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives on item importance, scoring, and clinically meaningful differences for the Endometriosis Symptom Diary (ESD) and Endometriosis Impact Scale (EIS)

 

Patients, n (%)

N = 25

Participants of the ESPARIOS study

 

 Yes

8 (32)

 No

17 (68)

Mean age in years, (SD) [Range]

33 (6) [19–47]

Country of residence

 

 USA

17 (68)

 Germany

8 (32)

Ethnicity

 

 Hispanic or Latino

1 (4)

 Not Hispanic or Latino

24 (96)

Race

 

 White

21 (84)

 Black

4 (16)

Education

 

 University/college degree or equivalent professional qualification

14 (56)

 No university/college degree or equivalent professional qualification

9 (36)

 Not reported

2 (8)

Employment status

 

 Employed

21 (84)

 Full-time homemaker

1 (4)

 Not working due to medical reasons

2 (8)

 Not reported

1 (4)

Mean years since endometriosis first suspected by clinician (SD) [Range]a

8.0 (5.8) [0.3–18.9]

Comorbidities affecting > 1 patient, n (%)

 

 Anemia

3 (13)

 Depression

3 (13)

 Migraine

3 (13)

 Ovarian cysts

3 (13)

 Hypertension

2 (8)

Treatment received (previous or current)a

 

 Surgery

18 (75)

 Analgesics

11 (46)

 Combined oral contraceptive

13 (54)

  1. aData only available for 24 participants
  2. Some categories do not sum to N = 25 due to: Treatments received were not mutually exclusive, some patients received more than one therapy; comorbidities were not mutually exclusive, some patients had more than one comorbidity and other patients had no comorbidities
  3. SD = standard deviation