Table III.

Relationships between sociodemographic variables, disease parameters, stress, anxiety, depression, and sexual problems in systemic lupus erythematosus patients

Characteristic	r		ANCOVA
	ρ	p	F	p
Age	–0.41	< 0.001	0.48	0.48
Life status	–0.21	0.004	3.46	0.06
Educational level	0.017	0.82	0.68	0.17
Job	0.014	0.82	0.79	0.06
Child number	–0.201*	0.009	4.29	0.03
Child age	–0.37**	< 0.001	1.43	0.23
Economic status	0.11**	0.06	0.79	0.37
Menstrual status	–0.31**	< 0.001	0.003	0.96
Marriage duration	–0.41	< 0.001	2.11	0.14
Diagnostic age	–0.16*	0.03	1.40	0.23
Disease duration	–0.32**	< 0.001	4.15	0.04
SLEDAI	–0.198	< 0.001	0.09	0.75
DASS	–0.46**	< 0.001	3.85	0.051
Stress	–0.42	< 0.001	0.006	0.93
Anxiety	–0.40	< 0.001	7.97	0.005
Depression	–0.44	< 0.001	1.76	0.18

SLEDAI – Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index; DASS – Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales; ANCOVA – analysis of covariance

^*p < 0.05

^**p < 0.01.