The Impact and Correlation of Anxiety and Depression on Pressure Pain Threshold of Acupoints in Patients with Chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Table 5

Correlation among anxiety, depression, and PPT in CPID patients.

			ST28 (R)	ST29 (R)	SP10 (R)	ST36 (R)	SP9 (R)	SP9 (L)	LR3 (L)
Group A (n = 73)	SAS	Spearman	0.049	0.118	0.157	0.030	−0.005	0.043	0.058
		value	0.683	0.320	0.184	0.803	0.996	0.718	0.625
	SDS	Spearman	0.037	0.141	−0.001	0.051	−0.001	0.108	0.090
		value	0.756	0.233	0.096	0.670	0.995	0.362	0.451
Group A + group B (n = 147)	SAS	Spearman	0.162	0.191	0.231	0.178	0.148	0.169	0.177
		value	0.050	0.020	0.005	0.031	0.073	0.041	0.032
	SDS	Spearman	0.101	0.123	0.144	0.124	0.076	0.129	0.149
		value	0.224	0.139	0.082	0.135	0.359	0.119	0.072

, . The bold values indicate significant statistical values between the two groups.