Table 2

Correlations* between patients’ self-assessment of SLE disease activity and physician’s assessment (n=115)

Coefficient*P value
SLAM-nolab versus
 Total Q-SLAQ0.709<0.001
 Total Q-SLAQ with sicca0.690<0.001
 Symptom Score0.680<0.001
 Symptom Score with sicca0.674<0.001
 Patient’s global disease activity0.683<0.001
SLAM versus
 Total Q-SLAQ0.528<0.001
 Total Q-SLAQ with sicca0.505<0.001
 Symptom Score0.496<0.001
 Symptom Score with sicca0.488<0.001
 Patient’s global disease activity0.529<0.001
SLEDAI-2K nolab versus
 Total Q-SLAQ0.3030.001
 Total Q-SLAQ with sicca0.2740.004
 Symptom Score0.3010.001
 Symptom Score with sicca0.2920.002
 Patient’s global disease activity0.361<0.001
SLEDAI-2K versus
 Total Q-SLAQ−0.0460.622
 Total Q-SLAQ with sicca−0.0840.371
 Symptom Score−0.0280.766
 Symptom Score with sicca−0.0420.656
 Patient’s global disease activity0.0860.374
  • *Spearman correlation.

  • Q-SLAQ, Quick Systemic Lupus Activity Questionnaire; SLAM, SLE Activity Measure; SLAM-nolab, Systemic Lupus Activity Measure without laboratory parameters; SLEDAI-2K, SLE Disease Activity Index; SLEDAI-2K-nolab, SLE Disease Activity Index without laboratory parameters.