Table 4.

Spearman's rank correlation coefficients of subscales of the ESRD-SCL with demographic and clinical variables

	n	Limited physical capacity	Limited cognitive capacity	Cardiac and renal dysfunction	Side effects of corticosteroids	Increased growth of gum and hair	Transplantation-associated psychological distress	Total
Age (years)	53	0.22	0.18	0.18	-0.13	0.08	-0.06	0.09
Female (2) vs. male (1)	53	0.10	-0.04	0.25	0.34*	-0.05	0.07	0.17
Employment (yes/no)	53	-0.38**	-0.30*	-0.23	-0.19	-0.37**	-0.15	-0.34*
Time since transplantation (years)	53	0.19	-0.01	0.14	-0.17	0.14	-0.21	0.02
Charlson's comorbidity index	53	0.24	0.19	0.20	0.04	0.03	0.06	0.17
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	53	-0.14	-0.01	-0.29*	-0.13	0.11	-0.18	-0.20
S-creatinine (umol/L)	53	0.16	0.11	0.20	-0.04	-0.06	0.13	0.15
CsA (2) vs. Tacrolimus (1)	48	0.08	0.06	0.06	-0.05	0.48**	-0.11	0.08
No. of drugs for hypertension	53	0.15	0.08	0.15	0.03	-0.22	0.17	0.14

*<0.05 **<0.01