Depressive Symptomatology in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Renal Insufficiency Undergoing Chronic Dialysis

Table 2

Correlation of depressive symptoms (score above 13 according to Birleson Scale) and no depressive symptoms with clinical and demographic variables.

Variable	Depressive symptoms	No depressive symptoms	P < 0.05
	𝑥±𝜎	𝑥±𝜎
Patient’s age	14.67±2.89	14.10±2.78	0.33
Age of patient’s guardian	43.38±7.0	40.16±7.44	0.1
Dialysis time	1.91±1.47	2.47±2.41	0.25
Hematocrit (%)	26.52±6.88	28.28±6.44	0.14
Parathormone (pg./mL)	277.37±245.11	309±385.86	0.68
Kt/V hemodialysis	1.45±0.19	1.39±0.28	0.43
Kt/V peritoneal dialysis	2.15±0.68	2.52±0.65	0.01