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

Table 4 Associations of the Short Form – 36 with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of localized scleroderma patients

Possible factor	Statistical test	PCS		MCS
Possible factor	Statistical test	Result*	P	result	P
Age at survey	Spearman rank correlation	−0.43	0.005	0.06	0.70
Age at disease onset (years)		−0.34	0.032	0.16	0.33
Disease uration (years)		−0.24	0.13	−0.13	0.44
Body surface area affected by LoS		−0.26	0.10	0.22	0.18
LoSCAT summary score		−0.33	0.037	0.19	0.25
Gender	U Mann-Whitney	102.0	0.65	75.0	0.15
Comorbid medical conditions		209.0	0.56	206.5	0.61
Musculoskeletal manifestations		97.0	0.030	74.0	0.36
Symptoms		310.0	0.002	210.0	0.79
Residence	Kruskal-Wallis	6.97	0.07	8.88	0.031
Education		2.97	0.40	0.88	0.83
Working		9.05	0.06	4.17	0.38
Marital status		4.88	0.30	2.61	0.63
Activity of the disease		1.05	0.79	5.92	0.12

MCS mental component summary, PCS physical component summary
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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