Silent Burdens in Disease: Fatigue and Depression in SLE

Table 2

Fatigue assessment.

	Total; 𝑛=148	SLE (1); 𝑛=50	Depression (2); 𝑛=45	Controls (3); 𝑛=53	𝑃	Post hoc analysis
FSS global score^a,b	4.3 (1.7)	5.2 (1.3)	4.5 (1.4)	3.2 (1.8)	0.000^d	2, 1>3
	1.0–7.0	1.6–7.0	1.7–7.0	1.0–10.4
Fatigue severity level^c
Nonclinical	36 (24.3)	5 (10.0)	6 (13.3)	25 (47.2)	0.000^e
Clinical	101 (68.2)	45 (90.0)	35 (77.8)	21 (39.6)
Missing	11 (7.4)		4 (8.9)	7 (13.2)

aMean (standard deviation); ^bminimum–maximum; ^c𝑛 (%); ^dANOVA; ^eChi-square test.