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. 2021 Oct 26;16:100496. doi: 10.1016/j.ebr.2021.100496

Table 2.

Participant characteristics and mood, anxiety, and depression scores.

Variable Healthy Controls FS
Number of participants N = 12 N = 3
Age 28.5 ± 8.4 38.3 ± 13.9
Profile of Mood States (POMS)
Total mood disturbance (TMD) score 6.8 ± 21.2 64.0 ± 59.6
Tension-Anxiety 5.7 ± 7.5 18.0 ± 12.5
Depression 4.3 ± 4.0 17.3 ± 16.6
Anger-Hostility 4.5 ± 3.7 15.0 ± 19.5
Vigor (higher score is better) 18.1 ± 6.3 12.7 ± 5.5
Fatigue 7.6 ± 4.8 13.0 ± 9.0
Confusion 2.8 ± 4.2 13.3 ± 3.1



Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
Depression score 1.3 ± 1.4 7.7 ± 3.5
# Normal (% of group) 12 (100%) 1 (33.3%)
# Borderline Abnormal (% of group) 0 1 (33.3%)
# Abnormal (% of group) 0 1 (33.3%)
Anxiety score 6.1 ± 2.5 11.7 ± 4.0
# Normal (% of group) 8 (66.7%) 0
# Borderline Abnormal (% of group) 4 (33.3%) 1 (33.3%)
# Abnormal (% of group) 0 2 (66.7%)

Results are presented as means ± standard deviation (SD).