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Table 1 Study sample characteristics

From: Development of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Distress Scale (RADS): a new tool to identify disease-specific distress in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

STUDY phase/title

Data

PHASE 1

 

Myositis fatigue study [24]

12 male and female adult patients

Anti-phospholipid Syndrome Fatigue study [25]

9 female adult patients

Rheumatoid Arthritis study [23]

26 male and female adult patients

Titrate study (intermediate Rheumatoid Arthritis) [22]

14 Adults (9 patients and 5 carers)

Total RA patients from Phase 1 original data sets

35

Total non-RA patients from Phase 1 original data sets

21

Total carers for RA patients from Phase 1 original datasets

5

PHASE 2

4 adults with RA

PHASE 4

3 adults with RA

PHASE 5

9 adults with RA (adult duplicate participant also from Phase 4 = 8 individual adults)

Total RA patients from Phases 1–5

50

Total non-RA patients from Phases 1–5

21

Total carers for RA patients from Phases 1–5

5