The Correlations between Health-Related Quality of Life Changes and Pain and Anxiety in Orthodontic Patients in the Initial Stage of Treatment

Table 3

Means (SD) and correlation analysis results of VAS scores and state anxiety scores in the study subject.

	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	7th day	14th day	30th day
VAS	59 (28)	53 (31)	36 (35)	6 (16)	1 (5)	0 (2)
State anxiety	38 (15)	38 (17)	36 (15)	31 (13)	30 (15)	31 (14)
	0.171	0.246	0.189	0.310	0.333	0.125
value	0.008	<0.001	0.003	<0.001	<0.001	0.055

Analysis of the relevance between VAS scores and state anxiety scores on each observation point by Spearman rank correlation.
The rank correlation coefficients were statistically significant ().