Patient demographic and disease characteristics (n=926)
| Sociodemographic and medical variables | Values |
| Age*, years, mean±SD (range) | 55.6±11.8 (18.6–84.9) |
| Women, n (%) | 813 (88) |
| Married/cohabitating, n (%) | 681 (74) |
| Time since the onset of the first non-Raynaud’s symptoms, years†, mean±SD (range) | 11.8±8.9 (0.1–46.2) |
| Patients with diffuse SSc, n (%) | 399 (43) |
| MRSS‡, mean±SD (range) | 8.0±8.8 (0–48) |
| SAAS score, mean (median)±SD (range) | 28.3 (24)±13.2 (16–80) |
| Mean score (median)±SD (range) in diffuse SSc subset | 30.7 (26)±15.5 (16–80) |
| Mean score (median)±SD (range) in limited SSc subset | 16.5 (22)±11.9 (16–79) |
| BFNE II, mean (median)±SD (range) | 24.7 (21)±12.1 (12–60) |
| Brief-SWAP Dissatisfaction with Appearance*, mean (median)±SD (range) | 9.25 (9)±5.24 (0–18) |
| Brief-SWAP Social Discomfort§, mean (median)±SD (range) | 5.33 (4)±5.26 (0–18) |
| PHQ-8§, mean (median)±SD (range) | 6.14 (5)±5.35 (0–24) |
| SIAS-6¶, mean (median)±SD (range) | 2.43 (1)±3.81 (0–24) |
Due to missing values: *N=922; †N=861; ‡N=722; §N=921; ¶N=920.
BFNE II, Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation II; Brief-SWAP, Brief Satisfaction with Appearance Scale; MRSS, modified Rodnan skin score; SAAS, Social Anxiety Appearance Scale; SIAS-6, Social Interaction Anxiety Scale-6; SSc, systemic sclerosis.