Table 5.

Coefficients of correlation between chronic pain, fatigue, QuickDASH, working hours, and sleeping hours in males and females. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (upper) and p-value (lower) between the chronic pain, fatigue and QuickDASH characteristics for males and females.

		Chronic Pain	Fatigue	QDASH-DS	QDASH-W	QDASH-SM	Work Hours	Sleeping Hours
Age	Male	−0.336	−0.075	−0.179	−0.096	−0.364	−0.284	0.130
		0.052	0.672	0.344	0.612	0.199	0.121	0.472
	Female	−0.198	−0.148	0.059	0.167	0.269	−0.442	0.143
		0.092	0.212	0.642	0.214	0.238	0.001	0.230
Chronic pain	Male	1	0.598	0.601	0.411	0.794	0.130	−0.244
			0.001	0.001	0.022	0.001	0.479	0.164
	Female	-	0.340	0.435	0.267	0.336	0.125	−0.021
			0.003	0.001	0.041	0.136	0.333	0.859
Fatigue	Male	-	1	0.477	0.638	0.665	−0.084	−0.006
				0.007	0.001	0.008	0.647	0.974
	Female	-	-	0.302	0.467	0.030	0.070	−0.123
				0.013	0.001	0.896	0.589	0.296
QDASH-DS	Male	-	-	1	0.709	0.597	0.217	−0.240
					0.001	0.034	0.250	0.311
	Female	-	-	-	0.733	0.397	0.071	−0.118
					0.001	0.103	0.603	0.347
QDASH-W	Male	-	-	-	1	0.801	0.011	−0.188
						0.001	0.955	0.311
	Female	-	-	-	-	0.677	0.066	−0.024
						0.001	0.657	0.493
QDASH-SM	Male	-	-	-	-	1	−0.109	−0.426
							0.709	0.130
	Female	-	-	-	-	-	−0.161	0.163
							0.522	0.493
Work Hours	Male	-	-	-	-	-	1	−0.344
								0.054
	Female	-	-	-	-	-	-	−0.117
								0.371

QDASH-DS, QuickDASH disability/symptom; QDASH-W, QuickDASH work; QDASH-SM, QuickDASH sports/music.