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Table 2 Bivariate correlations between SIS and clinical characteristics

From: Graphic representation of the burden of suffering in dizziness patients

 

PRISM; SIS

HADS

DHI total

PRISM; SIS

1

  

HADS

-.44***

1

 

DHI total

-.56***

.56***

1

DHIF

−0.51***

0.50***

0.95***

DHIP

−0.41***

0.34***

0.80***

DHIE

−0.57***

0.60***

0.88***

DoDa

−0.05

0.003

−0.05

AvP

0.31***

−0.04

−0.25**

VNVb

F = 3.25*

4.20*

4.34*

age

0.03

−0.04

−0.02

  1. Pearson correlations unless otherwise specified; aSpearman’s correlation coefficient; bANOVA; ***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01;*p < 0.05; Bonferroni-corrected threshold for significance: 0.002; PRISM: Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self- Measure; SIS: Self illness separation; DHI total: Dizziness Handicap Inventory, total summation score, DHIF: DHI functional scale; DHIP: DHI physical scale; DHIE: DHI emotional scale; HADS: Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale; DoD: duration of dizziness; AVP: transient attacks (coded as 1) versus continuous dizziness (coded as 0); VNV: vertigo versus non-vertigo versus mixed (vertigo and non-vertigo) dizziness.