Table 3.

The correlation between variables in study groups

		Control		Probiotic
	Variables	R	p	R	p
ICU admit	Length of hospitalization	0.23	0.54	0.33	0.32
	Duration of antibiotics therapy	0.30	0.38	0.21	0.54
	Kinds of antibiotics	0.55	0.08	0.22	0.51
	Stool form_antibiotics therapy	0.67*	0.00	−0.06	0.85
	Stool frequency_antibiotics therapy	0.84*	0.00	0.16	0.65
	Stool form_ end of antibiotics therapy	−0.27	0.43	−0.4	0.22
	Stool frequency_end of antibiotics therapy	0.49	0.13	0.00	1.00
	NRS score_initial	0.81*	0.00	0.38	0.24
	NRS score_discharge	0.43	0.19	−0.14	0.68
Duration of antibiotics therapy	Stool form_antibiotics therapy	0.20	0.56	0.31	0.35
	Stool frequency_antibiotics therapy	0.04	0.90	0.50	0.11
	Stool form_ end of antibiotics therapy	0.13	0.70	0.01	0.98
	Stool frequency_end of antibiotics therapy	0.12	0.71	0.08	0.82
Numbers of antibiotics	Stool form_antibiotics therapy	0.52	0.10	−0.22	0.51
	Stool frequency_antibiotics therapy	0.52	0.10	0.16	0.64
	Stool form_ end of antibiotics therapy	−0.15	0.67	0.19	0.59
	Stool frequency_end of antibiotics therapy	0.29	0.39	0.08	0.81

^*p < 0.05 indicates the correlation is significant by using Spearman’s correlation