Participants’ patient reported outcomes (general health, disease activity, pain, fatigue, disability and depression)
| All participants | ‘Arthritis has a negative influence on my sexual health’ | ‘I am keeping up appearances’ | ‘I am satisfied with my sexual health’ | |
| Participants, n (%) | 30 (100.00) | 6 (19.35) | 5 (16.66) | 13 (43.33) |
| VAS health, median (SD)* | 3.11 (2.32) | 5.68 (1.62) | 3.95 (1.92) | 1.85 (1.76) |
| VAS activity (SD)* | 3.32 (3.22) | 4.93 (3.93) | 4.55 (2.17) | 2.89 (3.34) |
| VAS pain (SD)* | 3.32 (3.15) | 3.98 (3.00) | 4.72 (1.65) | 3.06 (3.60) |
| VAS fatigue (SD)* | 4.72 (2.97) | 6.63 (2.45) | 6.20 (1.35) | 3.03 (2.81) |
| HAQ-DI, mean (SD)† | 0.64 (0.58) | 1.30 (0.57) | 0.84 (0.55) | 0.41 (0.44) |
| RADAI (SD)‡ | 2.78 (2.33) | 3.72 (2.76) | 3.08 (1.29) | 2.56 (2.53) |
| PHQ-9, mean (SD)§ | 4.21 (4.56) | 7.66 (5.75) | 3.25 (0.50) | 4.00 (4.77) |
*Score range 0–10. It is a 10 cm straight horizontal line in which the ends are defined as the extreme limits of the parameter to be measured (health, disease activity, pain, fatigue) orientated from the 0 (best) to 10 (worst).
†Score range 0–3. Scores of 0–1 are considered to represent mild-to-moderate difficulty, 1–2 moderate-to-severe disability and 2–3 severe-to-very severe disability.
‡Score range 0 to 5.4. A RADAI score of 0 means no disease activity; higher scores are indicating higher levels of underlying RA disease activity. Scores between 0 and 1.4 indicate remission, 1.6 and 3.0 low disease activity, 3.2 and 5.4 moderate disease activity, and >5.6 high disease activity.
§Score range 0 to 27. Depression Severity can be classified as follows: 0-4 none, 5-9 mild, 10-14 moderate, 15-19 moderately severe, 20-27 severe.
HAQ-DI, Health Assessement Questionnaire-Disability Index; PHQ-9, Patient Health Questionnaire; RADAI, Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index; VAS, Visual Analogue Scale.