The Correlations between Health-Related Quality of Life Changes and Pain and Anxiety in Orthodontic Patients in the Initial Stage of Treatment
Table 4
Correlation analysis of SF-36 domain scores between VAS and S-AI scores in the study subjects.
PF-VAS
BP-VAS
GH-VAS
PF-SAI
BP-SAI
GH-SAI
1st day
−0.141
0.029
−0.033
0.613
−0.109
0.092
−0.109
0.090
−0.243
<0.001
−0.354
<0.001
2nd day
−0.124
0.055
−0.133
0.040
−0.161
0.013
−0.204
0.001
−0.230
<0.001
−0.369
<0.001
3rd day
−0.115
0.076
−0.153
0.018
−0.170
0.008
−0.207
0.001
−0.143
0.026
−0.360
<0.001
7th day
−0.048
0.462
−0.139
0.032
−0.212
0.001
−0.166
0.010
−0.268
<0.001
−0.413
<0.001
14th day
−0.045
0.487
−0.151
0.020
−0.273
<0.001
−0.236
<0.001
−0.194
0.002
−0.515
<0.001
30th day
−0.012
0.857
−0.143
0.028
−0.222
0.001
−0.205
0.001
−0.131
0.042
−0.466
<0.001
Analysis of the relevance between SF-36 domain scores (on day 30) and VAS/state anxiety scores on each observation point by Spearman rank correlation. The rank correlation coefficients were statistically significant ().
