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Table 4.

Association between kidney, physical and mental summary components and some selected factors

Characteristic	Kidney Disease Summary Component			Physical Component Summary Score			Mental Component Summary Score
Characteristic	Median	IQR	p value^a	Median	IQR	p value^a	Median	IQR	p value^a
Gender
Male	58.5	54.2–63.7	0.470	35.0	26.2–40.9	0.443	38.8	34.8–42.2	0.470
Female	58.2	54.3–63.1	0.470	36.2	25.0–43.1	0.443	39.1	33.5–43.7	0.470
Employment
Employed	60.4	56.0–65.0	< 0.001	36.3	30.0–45.6	< 0.001	39.5	36.2–43.3	< 0.001
Not employed	57.6	53.3–62.5	< 0.001	33.7	23.7–40.6	< 0.001	38.4	32.3–42.4	< 0.001
Comorbidities
Present	58.2	53.8–62.8	0.002	35.0	25.0–42.5	0.539	39.0	34.0–43.0	0.515
Absent	59.6	55.3–65.2	0.002	35.0	27.5–41.1	0.539	39.1	35.5–42.5	0.515
Depression
Positive	56.4	52.6–60.6	< 0.001	33.7	23.7–40.0	< 0.001	37.9	30.5–41.3	< 0.001
Negative	63.3	58.5–67.9	< 0.001	36.2	30.0–48.1	< 0.001	40.1	37.1–46.1	< 0.001
Psychological distress
Positive	57.2	53.3–61.9	< 0.001	33.7	23.7–39.4	< 0.001	38.2	32.1–41.3	< 0.001
Negative	63.5	57.8–68.5	< 0.001	41.2	32.5–57.5	< 0.001	41.3	37.7–52.8	< 0.001

^aAssociation tested by Mann-Whitney U test