Characteristics | Values |
---|---|
Patient characteristics | |
Participant background | |
Physicians | 22 (51) |
Allied health professionals | 10 (23) |
Person with arthritis | 3 (7) |
Researchers | 5 (12) |
Other | 2 (5) |
No response | 1 (2) |
Province or territory | |
Alberta | 6 (14) |
British Columbia | 6 (14) |
Manitoba | 2 (5) |
New Brunswick | 1 (2) |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 2 (5) |
Northwest Territories | 0 (0) |
Nova Scotia | 3 (7) |
Nunavut | 0 (0) |
Ontario | 14 (33) |
Prince Edward Island | 0 (0) |
Quebec | 6 (14) |
Saskatchewan | 2 (5) |
Yukon | 0 (0) |
No response | 1 (2) |
Urban vs rural location | |
Urban location | 41 (95) |
Rural location | 1 (2) |
No response | 1 (2) |
Health professional characteristics, includes physicians and allied health* Yrs in practice | |
< 5 | 3 |
5–10 | 4 |
11–20 | 12 |
> 21 | 15 |
Practice setting | |
Academic: clinical/teaching | 20 |
Academic: research | 6 |
Community practice | 7 |
Other | 1 |
Practice patient population | |
Adult patients with all types of IA | 23 |
Predominantly RA | 3 |
Predominantly AS | 1 |
Predominantly PsA | 0 |
Predominantly JIA | 5 |
No. patients with IA routinely seen | 1 |
Other | 1 |
↵* There are 34 respondents in this section; however, only 32 participants indicated they were health professionals in earlier questions. This is because 1 participant did not answer these questions and 3 researchers did (presumably because they are clinician scientists). IA: inflammatory arthritis; RA: rheumatoid arthritis; AS: ankylosing spondylitis; PsA: psoriatic arthritis; JIA: juvenile idiopathic arthritis.