Health-related quality of life and its influencing factors in adult patients with localized scleroderma - a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Associations of the Skindex 29 domains with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of localized scleroderma patients

Possible factor	Statistical test	Symptoms		Functions		Emotions
Possible factor	Statistical test	result	p	result	p	result	P
Age at survey (years)	Spearman rank correlation	−0.12	0.48	−0.14	0.38	−0.09	0.60
Age at disease onset (years)		−0.17	0.29	−0.13	0.42	−0.69	0.67
Disease duration (years)		0.14	0.40	0.05	0.74	0.11	0.52
Body surface area affected by LoS		0.05	0.76	0.18	0.26	0.17	0.30
LoSCAT summary score		−0.01	0.95	0.22	0.18	0.10	0.54
Gender	U Mann-Whitney	101.5	0.63	141.5	0.36	178.5	0.026
Comorbid medical conditions		195.5	0.83	234.5	0.19	232.5	0.21
Musculoskeletal manifestations		28.0	0.16	29.5	0.19	43.5	0.55
Symptoms		146.5	0.15	158.0	0.26	148.5	0.17
Residence	Kruskal-Wallis	1.69	0.64	3.15	0.37	1.04	0.79
Education		2.47	0.48	1.95	0.58	0.48	0.92
Working		4.21	0.38	3.45	0.48	2.01	0.73
Marital status		4.32	0.36	7.37	0.12	7.84	0.10
Activity of the disease		4.51	0.21	0.85	0.84	1.17	0.76

The result of Spearman correlation test is r. The result of U Mann-Whitney test is U-statistics and of the Kruskal-Wallis is chi-square

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