Table 4. – Descriptive analysis of the anxiety and depression symptoms of the 75 patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass graft according to sex, age, marital status, employment status, and probability (p) values associated with the Mann-Whitney test. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, 2013-2015.
Variable | HADS* - Anxiety | HADS* - Depression | ||
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Median | Minimum - maximum | Median | Minimum - maximum | |
Sex | ||||
Male (n = 52) | 4.0 | 0 – 16 | 3.0 | 0 – 11 |
Female (n = 23) | 6.0 | 0 – 17 | 3.0 | 0 – 18 |
p † | 0.028‡ | 0.109 | ||
Age | ||||
Elderly (n = 46) | 4.0 | 0 – 16 | 3.0 | 0 – 18 |
Adult (n = 29) | 4.0 | 0 – 17 | 2.0 | 0 – 14 |
p † | 0.965 | 0.507 | ||
Marital status | ||||
With partner (n = 53) | 4.0 | 0 – 16 | 3.0 | 0 – 18 |
Without partner (n = 22) | 5.0 | 0 – 17 | 3.0 | 0 – 14 |
p † | 0.365 | 0.422 | ||
Employment relationship | ||||
Inactive (n = 50) | 5.0 | 0 – 17 | 3.0 | 0 – 18 |
Active (n = 25) | 4.0 | 0 – 15 | 3.0 | 0 – 11 |
p † | 0.379 | 0.455 |
*HADS: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; †p= p-value from the Mann-Whitney test; ‡p <0.05: statistical significance