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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: WMJ. 2015 Jun;114(3):100–104.

Table 2.

Predictive correlations of mental health scores with ARI outcomes using Kendall tau rank correlations.

Instrument Mean (SD) Incidence: # of
ARI illnesses
tau (SE)		 Duration: # of
ARI illness days
tau (SE)		 Severity: total WURSS
global severity score
tau (SE)
SF-12 Mental 49.87 (8.83) −0.09 (0.04)*
p =0.037		 −0.07 (0.04)
p=0.077		 −0.07 (0.04)
p=0.073
PANAS + 35.60 (6.67) 0.00 (0.04)
p=0.942		 −0.01 (0.04)
p=0.802		 0.00 (0.04)
0.989
PANAS − 16.87 (5.84) 0.07 (0.04)
p=0.081		 0.06 (0.04)
p=0.125		 0.08 (0.04)*
p=0.037
PHQ-9 2.82 (2.55) −0.05 (0.04)
p=0.276		 −0.01 (0.04)
p=0.716		 0.01 (0.04)
p=0.803
PSS-10 12.22 (5.63) 0.01 (0.04)
p=0.723		 0.01 (0.04)
p=0.778		 0.03 (0.04)
p=0.392
MAAS 4.38 (0.78) −0.09 (0.04)*
p=0.036		 −0.08 (0.04)
p=0.053		 −0.07 (0.04)
p=0.070

Kendall tau rank scores are analogous to correlation coefficients

*

significant association, p-value <0.05

Inline graphic = expected direction of relationship (positive or negative)