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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain. 2021 May 21;22(11):1506–1517. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2021.04.015

Table 3.

Correlation Between MPQ Total Score and PCL Symptom Clusters Across Presence of Trauma, and Significance of Interaction Between Trauma and MPQ Total Score, Controlling for Age

All (N = 5,703)
Trauma (N = 3,015)
No Trauma (N = 2,688)
Interaction of PCL-T and Trauma History
r P r P r P β P
Full sample
Re-experiencing .51 <.001 .53 <.001 .37 <.001 .29 <.001
Avoidance .56 <.001 .57 <.001 .45 <.001 .23 <.001
Arousal .60 <.001 .60 <.001 .51 <.001 .16 <.001

Chronic pain subsample
Re-experiencing .48 <.001 .50 <.001 .33 <.001 .29 <.001
Avoidance .52 <.001 .53 <.001 .42 <.001 .21 <.001
Arousal .55 <.001 .55 <.001 .46 <.001 .14 <.001

Abbreviations: MPQ-T, Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire total score; PCL, PTSD Checklist; Re-experiencing, PCL re-experiencing symptom cluster, Avoidance, PCL Avoidance symptom cluster; Arousal, PCL Arousal symptom cluster; r, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient; β, standardized regression coefficient (beta weight); P, probability value.