Does Fatigue Complaint Reflect Memory Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis?

Table 4

Correlations between the clinical and therapeutic characteristics and the SRT, QAM, and FIS scores.

	QAM	FIS			SRT
		Total score	Cognitive subscore	Physical subscore	Number of words recalled	Learning index	Delayed recall
MS form	0.80	0.46	0.49	0.004*	0.12	0.01*	0.03*
EDSS score	0.15	0.007*	0.18	0.0002*	0.05	0.002*	0.02*
Concomitant treatment	0.02*	0.03*	0.13	0.008*	0.01*	0.01*	0.01*
BDI-II	0.0002*	<0.0001*	<0.0001*	0.0006*	0.07	0.08	0.01*
Age	0.63	0.55	0.81	0.40	0.54	0.09	0.73
Sex	0.43	0.55	0.31	0.95	0.1	0.62	0.35
Education level	0.56	0.68	0.67	0.81	0.18	0.06	0.11
Professional activity	0.74	0.54	0.84	0.40	0.38	0.07	0.09
Other autoimmune disorders	0.16	0.11	0.06	0.33	0.82	0.33	0.38
MS treatments	0.10	0.26	0.96	0.01*	0.84	0.28	0.46
Disease duration	0.91	0.85	0.82	0.82	0.83	0.72	0.55

^∗𝑃 values < 0.05 are shown in bold; BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory; EDSS: Expanded Disability Status Scale; FIS: Fatigue Impact Scale; MS: multiple sclerosis; QAM: Questionnaire d’Autoévaluation de la Mémoire; SRT: Selective Reminding Test.