Table 3.

Association of demographic characteristics and clinical measures with patient global assessment by the visual analog scale or the Rating Scale, by multivariate regression.

Characteristic	Visual Analog Scale			Rating Scale
Characteristic	ß	t	p	ß	t	p
DAS28-based model
DAS28	1.65	1.13	0.26	1.15	0.73	0.47
Age	0.07	0.66	0.51	0.04	0.36	0.72
Male	1.40	−0.40	0.69	4.16	1.10	0.28
White	0.81	−0.27	0.78	0.59	0.18	0.86
Education level	0.55	−1.10	0.27	−1.18	−2.17	0.04
Severity of stiffness	0.14	1.99	0.05	−0.02	−0.29	0.78
Modified CESD	0.83	4.72	< 0.0001	0.77	4.05	< 0.0001
HAQ	2.90	1.19	0.24	9.42	3.57	0.0005
Pain scale	0.33	4.12	< 0.0001	0.15	1.77	0.08
Model R²	0.57			0.44
Physician global-based model
Physician global assessment	0.13	1.43	0.16	−0.13	−1.26	0.21
Age	0.08	0.74	0.47	−0.01	−0.08	0.94
Male	−1.61	−0.45	0.66	6.95	1.79	0.08
White	−0.66	−0.23	0.83	−0.04	−0.02	0.99
Educational level	−0.59	−1.17	0.25	−1.00	−1.84	0.07
Severity of stiffness	0.13	1.96	0.06	−0.004	−0.06	0.95
Modified CESD	0.82	4.74	< 0.0001	0.77	4.09	< 0.0001
HAQ	2.58	1.08	0.29	10.71	4.16	< 0.0001
Pain scale	0.34	4.36	< 0.0001	0.19	2.23	0.03
Model R²	0.58			0.45

DAS28: Disease Activity Score 28; HAQ: Health Assessment Questionnaire; CESD: Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale.