Table 1 Demographic, clinical data, and outcome measures of the study sample (n = 119).

From: Factors influencing employment and absenteeism in working age people with multiple sclerosis

Categorial variable

N

%

Gender

Male

54

45.4%

Female

65

54.6%

Total

119

100.0%

Home location

North

11

10.0%

Center

89

80.9%

South

10

9.1%

Total

110

100.0%

Family status

Married

70

60.3%

Widowed

6

5.2%

Single

31

26.7%

Divorced

9

7.8%

Total

116

100.0%

Employment status

Fully employed

59

49.6%

Partially employed

35

29.4%

Unemployed

25

21.0%

Total

119

100.0%

EDSS

0–2.0

57

57.0%

2.5-4.0

20

20.0%

4.5–5.5

12

12.0%

6.0–7.0

11

11.0%

Continuous/Ordinal Variable

Mean

Standard Deviation

Range

Age, y

40.41

11.41

20–62

Education, y

15.40

2.92

9–26

Disease duration, y

9.95

7.73

0–30

Total MSWDQ score

30.78

23.33

0-89.58

Cognitive barriers

28.89

22.80

0-100

Physical barriers

29.98

23.94

0-90.63

External barriers

34.88

30.67

0-100

Bladder, score

1.08

1.56

0-5.50

Bowel, score

0.61

0.87

0-4.20

Cognition (SDMT score)

47.53

13.55

16–87

Perceived mobility (MSWS12)

28.77

17.36

0–60

Fear of falling (FES-I score)

27.55

12.82

0–62

Fatigue (MFIS score)

33.40

20.65

0–84

Anxiety (HADS score)

6.44

4.64

0–18

Depression (HADS score)

5.15

4.06

0–16