The interplay of body composition, pain intensity, and psychological status in Egyptian patients with knee osteoarthritis

Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 3 Correlation between WOMAC score and HADS

		WOMAC-pain	WOMAC-stiff	WOMAC-function	WOMAC-total
HADS (Anxiety subscale)	r	0.296	0.342	0.156	0.390
HADS (Anxiety subscale)	p	0.024*	0.009*	0.243	0.002*
HADS (Depression subscale)	r	0.483	0.353	0.114	0.527
HADS (Depression subscale)	p	0.000*	0.007*	0.395	0.000*
HADS (total)	r	0.432	0.412	0.106	0.507
HADS (total)	p	0.001*	0.001*	0.420	0.000*

WOMAC Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index, HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
r for Pearson correlation coefficient
^*for statistically significant at p value ≤ 0.05 (2-tailed)