Table 2. Domains of personality, depression and anxiety scores between study groups.
| pSS patients N = 105 (Mean, 95% CI) |
RA patients N = 52 (Mean, 95% CI) |
Healthy Controls N = 54 (Mean, 95% CI) |
Effect size D |
p* | pa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neuroticism | 94.76 (90.66–98.87) | 95.56 (90.85–100.27) | 84.63 (78.46–90.80)# | 0.46 | 0.007 | 0.422 |
| Extraversion | 94.79 (91.55–98.03) | 92.15 (87.87–96.44) | 104.20 (98.67–109.73)# | 0.51 | 0.001* | 0.206 |
| Openness to experience |
101.86 (97.95–105.77) | 102.69 (97.52–107.87) | 111.17 (106.23–116.11)# | 0.65 | 0.013* | 0.858 |
| Agreeableness | 120.48 (118.06–122.89) | 121.37 (117.13–125.60) | 121.04 (117.65–124.42) | 0.05 | 0.916 | 0.999 |
| Conscientiousness | 122.97 (119.77–126.17) | 121.00 (116.29–125.71) | 125.02 (120.30–129.74) | 0.12 | 0.471 | 0.481 |
| SDS | 56.75 (55.55–57.94) | 54.90 (53.22–56.58) | 55.48 (53.76–57.21) | 0.20 | 0.171 | 0.051 |
| SAS | 37.53 (35.50–39.56) | 38.63 (35.93–41.33) | 30.48 (28.20–32.77)# | 0.74 | <0.001 | 0.466 |
*according to one way ANOVA
#differences between means of Sjogren and healthy controls according to multiple comparisons Bonferroni test
d—Cohen`s d as the measure of effect size (pSS patients vs. Healthy controls)
paaccording to ANCOVA between pSS and RA patients with disease duration as potential confound