Table 3.

Spearman's Rank Correlation to Assess the Relationships between Potential Predictors of the Impact of Bowel Care on Quality of Life

			Duration of injury		Level of injury		No. of approaches		Duration with routine		Time to complete routine		Frequency of incontinence		Quality of life		Severity of AD		Severity of OH symptoms		Fatigue
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Age	0.33	<0.0001	–0.03	0.691	–0.04	0.559	0.23	<0.0001	–0.07	0.321	–0.05	0.465	–0.10	0.127	–0.22	0.001	–0.18	0.009	–0.27	<0.0001
Duration of injury			—		–0.05	0.444	0.00	0.951	0.51	<0.0001	0.07	0.281	–0.03	0.649	–0.05	0.475	0.08	0.234	–0.00	0.993	–0.04	0.528
Level of injury					—		–0.02	0.729	–0.02	0.732	–0.12	0.063	0.18	0.008	–0.02	0.750	–0.07	0.303	–0.28	<0.0001	0.01	0.934
No. of bowel management approaches							—		–0.09	0.154	0.32	<0.0001	–0.08	0.239	0.17	0.013	0.28	<0.0001	0.19	0.006	–0.02	0.747
Duration with current routine							—		–0.02	0.777	–0.08	0.251	–0.06	0.345	–0.05	0.467	–0.11	0.105	–0.08	0.257
Time to complete current routine									—		–0.04	0.592	0.32	<0.001	0.21	0.002	0.25	<0.001	–0.04	0.533
Frequency of bowel incontinence													—		0.14	0.055	0.19	0.008	0.11	0.118	0.19	0.006
Quality of life															—		0.33	<0.0001	0.22	0.001	0.15	0.029
Severity of AD symptoms during care																	—		0.59	<0.0001	0.46	<0.0001
Severity of OH symptoms																			—		0.38	<0.0001
Fatigue																			—
Fluid restriction

Significant relationships are highlighted in bold text.

AD, autonomic dysreflexia; OH, orthostatic hypotension.