Table 3. Correlations of age, disease duration, disease activity, dryness severity, pain, emotional state, and insomnia level with fatigue assessed by FACIT-F, FS, and ESSPRI fatigue in PSS patients.
| FACIT-F score | Fatigue subscale | ESSPRI fatigue | ||||
| Rho | p | Rho | p | Rho | p | |
| Age (year) | -0.074 | 0.611 | 0.076 | 0.602 | 0.032 | 0.826 |
| Disease duration (year) | -0.094 | 0.516 | 0.019 | 0.893 | -0.010 | 0.944 |
| Disease activity | ||||||
| ESSDAI | -0.304 | 0.032 | -0.345 | 0.014 | 0.034 | 0.813 |
| Dryness severity | ||||||
| Schirmer (mean) | 0.085 | 0.556 | 0.015 | 0.919 | -0.186 | 0.195 |
| WUSFR | 0.033 | 0.818 | 0.033 | 0.819 | -0.131 | 0.364 |
| Pain | ||||||
| Pain thresholds (mean) | 0.169 | 0.241 | 0.212 | 0.139 | -0.175 | 0.225 |
| Number of painful body sites | -0.518 | <0.001 | -0.460 | 0.001 | 0.313 | 0.027 |
| Pain DETECT questionnaire | -0.561 | <0.001 | -0.465 | 0.001 | 0.355 | 0.011 |
| Emotional state | ||||||
| Beck Depression Inventory | -0.893 | <0.001 | -0.804 | <0.001 | 0.582 | <0.001 |
| Beck Anxiety Inventory | -0.712 | <0.001 | -0.586 | <0.001 | 0.449 | 0.001 |
| Insomnia | ||||||
| Insomnia Severity Index | -0.554 | <0.001 | -0.483 | <0.001 | 0.398 | 0.004 |
| FACIT-F: Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy Fatigue; ESSPRI: EULAR Sjögren’s Syndrome Patient Reported Index; PSS: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome; ESSDAI: EULAR Sjögren’s syndrome disease activity index; WUSFR: Whole unstimulated salivary flow rate. | ||||||