Table 4. Spearman’s rank correlations between the overall pain experienced during the fixed appliance treatment, the level of anxiety about the debond, the overall pain expected during the debond and the actual pain experienced at debond.
| Overall pain during fixed appliances | Anxiety about the debond | Overall pain expected | Overall pain experienced | ||
| Overall pain during fixed appliances | Correlation coefficient r | 1·000 | |||
| P-value | . | ||||
| Anxiety about the debond | Correlation coefficient r | 0·215 | 1·000 | ||
| P-value | 0·041 | . | |||
| Overall pain expected | Correlation coefficient r | 0·373 | 0·617 | 1·000 | |
| P-value | <0·0001 | <.0001 | . | ||
| Overall pain experienced | Correlation coefficient r | 0·408 | 0·249 | 0·340 | 1·000 |
| P-value | <0·0001 | 0·018 | 0·001 | . |