Skip to main content
. 2022 Jun 7;16:889849. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.889849

TABLE 1.

Baseline characteristics.

Control
Chronic pain
Analyses
Male
Female
Male
Female
Sex
Group
Group × Sex
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) F p F p F p
Age 30.75 (9.89) 33.77 (10.67) 38.65 (7.88) 37.48 (10.42) 0.19 0.67 7.33 < 0.01 0.96 0.33
Affect
PANAS negative** 10.75 (1.04) 11.27 (2.37) 15.41 (6.35) 12.04 (3.17) 1.72 0.2 6.24 0.02 3.18 0.08
PANAS positive** 29.63 (4.10) 33.2 (9.56) 29.65 (6.9) 24.83 (8.09) 0.09 0.77 3.89 0.05 3.93 0.05
POMS TMD** -3.25 (5.75) -2.07 (10.94) 21.71 (23.88) 10.67 (12.94) 1.29 0.26 18.88 < 0.01 1.99 0.16
STAI State Anxiety** 29.63 (7.96) 29.20 (6.21) 40.94 (12.16) 37.19 (9.76) 0.63 0.43 13.54 < 0.01 0.40 0.53
Pain
McGill pain intensity 45.0 (21.14) 58.09 (21.87) 1.90* 0.07*
McGill pain unpleasantness** 46.29 (23.38) 57.73 (21.53) 1.6* 0.12*

Analyses represent the results of a two-way ANOVA with Sex and Group as factors except where denoted by (*), which indicates use of a two-sample t-test. PANAS, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, POMS TMD, Profile of Mood States Total Mood Disturbance, STAI, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Double asterisks indicate analyses with reduced sample sizes as follows: PANAS Negative, n = 63; PANAS Positive, n = 63; POMS TMD, n = 61; STAI State Anxiety, n = 60; McGill Pain Unpleasantness, n = 39. Affect denotes affective measures. Pain denotes pain measures.