Table 5.

Relationship between the scores of the DAS28 and Mini-COPE and PSS-10 questionnaire among total RA patients and by gender (n = 84)

DAS28	Patients with RA n = 84		Women n = 63		Men n = 21
	rhoa	pb	rho	p	rho	p
PSS-10	0.070	0.527	0.022	0.862	0.229	0.319
Mini-COPE
Active coping	− 0.053	0.629	0.010	0.936	− 0.396	0.076
Planning	− 0.086	0.435	− 0.038	0.767	− 0.338	0.134
Positive re-evaluation	− 0.071	0.519	− 0.041	0.748	− 0.029	0.900
Acceptance	− 0.049	0.661	− 0.060	0.642	− 0.006	0.978
Sense of humour	0.066	0.553	− 0.005	0.969	0.192	0.403
Turning to religion	0.043	0.699	0.002	0.985	0.144	0.533
Seeking emotional support	0.133	0.228	0.233	0.066	− 0.046	0.843
Seeking instrumental support	0.043	0.699	0.089	0.487	0.054	0.815
Dealing with something else	− 0.018	0.868	− 0.119	0.352	0.389	0.082
Denial	0.301	0.005	0.355	0.004	0.132	0.570
Discharge	0.065	0.555	0.007	0.954	0.420	0.058
Use of psychoactive substances	− 0.107	0.332	− 0.335	0.007	0.084	0.717
Cessation of activities	− 0.067	0.543	− 0.056	0.662	0.055	0.814
Blaming oneself	0.107	0.334	0.119	0.353	0.023	0.922

PSS-10 Perceived stress scale, Mini-COPE Inventory for the measurement of coping with stress, DAS28 Disease activity score

^aSpearman correlation coefficient

^bp for Spearman’s rank-order correlation