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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurourol Urodyn. 2015 Sep 1;35(8):1017–1023. doi: 10.1002/nau.22872

Table 3.

Spearman’s correlation between childhood traumatic burden and symptoms in OAB patients

OAB patients only: Correlation to
childhood traumatic ratings
Spearman’s coefficient
(rho)
p-value Comments on the questionnaire,
scoring range
OAB/UI symptom
measures
ICIQ-UI 0.080 0.58 4-item urinary incontinence, 0-21
ICIQ-OAB 0.083 0.57 4 item OAB symptoms, 0-16
OAB-q symptom bother 0.016 0.92 6-item on OAB-q short form, 6-36
UDI-6 0.087 0.55 6-item UDI short form, 0-24
USS 0.058 0.69 0-3 point urgency severity scale
Ratings of urgency 0.048 0.74 0-10 numeric ratings of urgency
Ratings of frequency -0.058 0.69 0-10 numeric ratings of frequency
OAB/UI quality of life
measures
OAB-q quality of life −0.077 0.62 13-item on OAB-q short form, 13-78
IIQ-7 0.12 0.41 7-item IIQ short form, 0-28
Pain symptoms
Ratings of bladder pain 0.39 0.005* 0-10 numeric ratings of pain
Ratings of non-urologic pain 0.34 0.017* 0-10 numeric ratings of pain
Psychosocial factors
Ratings of mood 0.45 0.001* 0-10 ratings, 0 = extremely good
mood, 10 = extremely bad mood
Anxiety (HADS-A) 0.31 0.029* 7-item on HADS, 0-21
Depression (HADS-D) 0.27 0.056 7-item on HADS, 0-21
Physical symptom burden
(PSPS-Q)
0.52 <0.001* 59 item checklist of bothersome
physical symptoms, 0-59
Sleep (PROMIS T-Score) −0.054 0.71 Short form 8b, T scores 28.9-76.5
Fatigue (PROMIS T-Score) 0.13 0.37 Short form 7a, T scores 29.4-83.2
Psychological stress (PSS) 0.30 0.039* 10 item perceived stress scale, 0-40
*

(p<0.05)