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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cytokine. 2012 Mar 24;58(3):437–447. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2012.02.015

Table 4.

Symptom severity scores for the total sample and differences in symptom severity scores among the latent classes

Symptom scores at enrollment Total
sample
N=253
Low Depression
& Low Pain (1)
N=210
83.0%
High Depression &
Low Pain (2)
N=12
4.7%
All High (3)

N=31
12.3%
p-value
post-hoc contrasts
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
CES-D scores 8.8 (8.2) 5.9 (4.7) 20.6 (6.8) 24.5 (5.0) p<.0001
3>1; p<.0001
GSDS scores 38.9 (18.6) 35.3 (15.4) 27.5 (12.0) 68.1 (14.6) p<.0001
3>1 and 2; p<.0001
LFS scores for evening fatigue 4.3 (2.0) 4.1 (2.0) 4.4 (2.6) 5.6 (1.3) p<.0001
3>1; p<.0001
Worst pain intensity scores 1.9 (3.2) 1.5 (2.9) 0.8 (2.7) 4.7 (3.7) p<.0001
3>1 and 2; p=.001

CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale; GSDS = General Sleep Disturbance Scale; LFS = Lee Fatigue Scale; SD= standard deviation