Weighted patient-reported quality of life metrics for SLE versus non-SLE respondents
| MEPS 2016–2018 pooled data | |||
| SLE | Controls | P value | |
| Perceived health | |||
| Total weighted, N | 490 385 | 2 625 426 | |
| Perceived health, n (%) | *** | ||
| Excellent | 7.7% | 23.3% | |
| Very good | 16.9% | 35.9% | |
| Good | 28.3% | 27.8% | |
| Fair | 22.5% | 10.6% | |
| Poor | 24.6% | 2.3% | |
| Perceived mental health, n (%) | *** | ||
| Excellent | 20.8% | 34.3% | |
| Very good | 28.4% | 32.6% | |
| Good | 30.3% | 28.2% | |
| Fair | 17.9% | 4.3% | |
| Poor | 2.6% | 0.6% | |
| Felt depressed in the last 2 weeks | *** | ||
| Not at all | 52.9% | 69.6% | |
| Several days | 24.9% | 14.1% | |
| More than half the days | 6.5% | 4.4% | |
| Nearly every day | 6.7% | 1.6% | |
| DK/Refused/Inapplicable | 9.0% | 10.2% | |
| Pain limits work, n (%) | *** | ||
| Not at all | 26.3% | 52.3% | |
| A little bit | 16.6% | 23.0% | |
| Moderately | 15.1% | 7.4% | |
| Quite a bit | 22.7% | 6.1% | |
| Extremely | 12.2% | 2.5% | |
| DK/Refused/Inapplicable | 7.1% | 8.6% | |
| Days missed work due to illness/injury, mean (SD) | NS | ||
| Mean | 9 (2.3) | 5 (0.4) | |
| Median | 2.1 | 0.2 | |
| Limitations in physical functioning | |||
| Limitation in physical functioning, n (%) | |||
| Yes | 45.1% | 15.3% | *** |
| No | 54.4% | 84.6% | |
| DK/Refused/Inapplicable | 0.5% | 0.1% | |
| Among respondents reporting limitations in physical functioning | |||
| Unable to walk 1 mile | 56.6% | 33.3% | ** |
| Unable to walk three blocks | 41.0% | 21.7% | * |
| Unable to stand 20 min | 35.3% | 11.6% | ** |
| Unable to walk up 10 steps | 8.2% | 5.9% | NS |
| Unable to reach overhead | 5.1% | 2.4% | NS |
*p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.
DK, do not know; MEPS, medical expenditure panel survey; NS, not significant.