Sensory Function and Chronic Pain in Multiple Sclerosis

Table 1

Means, standard deviations, and Mann–Whitney U tests concerning the scores on the Beck Depression Inventory and the SCL-90 anxiety and depression scale of persons with and without multiple sclerosis (MS).

	MS patients		Controls		Mann–Whitney U tests
	M	SD	M	SD	Z
Beck Depression Inventory	7.42	5.04	4.75	4.39	4.02	0.001
SCL-90 depression	22.35	7.01	18.74	4.47	4.00	0.001
SCL-90 anxiety	13.89	4.73	11.89	2.47	3.06	0.003

SCL-90: symptom checklist.