Table 5.
Correlations between support score and mental health as measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) subscales anxiety and depression (n = 220) (excluding missing data)
| Anxiety | Depression | ||||
| r | P value | r | P value | ||
| Posters (n = 107) | |||||
| Emotional support/helper therapy | –.477 | <.001 | .002 | .99 | |
| Emotional expression | .090 | .30 | .045 | .60 | |
| Advice | –.399 | <.001 | .082 | .34 | |
| Conflict | .132 | .12 | .287 | .001 | |
| Insight/universality | .130 | .13 | –.007 | .93 | |
| Lurkers (n = 113) | |||||
| Emotional support/helper therapy | .042 | .47 | .048 | .41 | |
| Emotional expression | –.294 | <.001 | –.116 | .05 | |
| Advice | –.655 | <.001 | .004 | .95 | |
| Conflict | .049 | .40 | .093 | .11 | |
| Insight/universality | –.495 | <.001 | –.048 | .41 | |