Depressed Mood Differentially Mediates the Relationship between Pain Intensity and Pain Disability Depending on Pain Duration: A Moderated Mediation Analysis in Chronic Pain Patients

Table 3

Results of the simple mediation analysis investigating depressed mood as a mediator between pain intensity and pain disability.

Normal theory test
	Coeff.	SE			LLCI	ULCI
Effect of pain intensity on depressed mood ( path)	.70	.33	2.10	.04	.04	1.36
Effect of depressed mood on pain disability ( path)	.47	.06	8.06	<.01	.36	.59
Direct effect of pain intensity on pain disability ( path)	2.42	.37	6.53	<.01	1.69	3.15
Bootstrap results for the indirect effect
	Effect	Boot SE	Boot LLCI		Boot ULCI
Indirect effect of pain intensity on pain disability through depressed mood ( path)	.33	.15	.05		.67

Note. Coeff.: coefficient; SE: standard error; LLCI: lower level of the 95% confidence interval; ULCI: upper level of the 95% confidence interval.