Table 5. – Correlation of anxiety and depression symptoms with the clinical characteristics of the 75 patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass graft with the respective probability values (p) associated with the Spearman correlation test. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, 2013-2015.

Variable	HADS* - Anxiety		HADS* - Depression
Clinical features	r†	p‡	r†	p‡
Preoperative admission time (days)	0.120	0.303	0.004	0.972
Surgery time (minutes)	0.076	0.517	0.008	0.943
Length of stay in the ICU§ (days)	0.100	0.933	0.178	0.127

*HADS: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; †r= correlation strength from the Spearman correlation test; ‡p= statistical significance of the correlation from the Spearman correlation test; §ICU: Intensive Care Unit