Psychoeducational Intervention Benefits the Quality of Life of Patients with Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Table 1

Participant demographics, by group.

Demographics	Intervention group ()	Control group ()
Age (years)			0.10
Female (%)	100	95.35	0.16
SLEDAI score			0.53
Level of education (years)			0.62
Occupation			0.64
Nonmanual worker	28	30
Manual workers	14	13
Married (%)	73.81	76.74	0.75
Disease duration (years)			0.26
Treatment with corticosteroids (%)	45	47	0.91
Treatment with immunosuppressants (%)	34	30	0.76
Hospital stay (days)			0.11

NS: not significant.