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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) results

From: Effectiveness of psychological support in patients undergoing primary total hip or knee arthroplasty: a controlled cohort study

 

EXP

CTR

p value

Anxiety

 All patients

12/94 (12.8 %)

75/95 (78.9 %)

<0.0001*,a

 Hip arthroplasty group

7/61 (11.5 %)

49/63 (77.8 %)

<0.0001*,b

 Knee arthroplasty group

5/33 (15.2 %)

26/32 (81.3 %)

<0.0001*,b

Depression

 All patients

12/94 (12.8 %)

70/95 (73.7 %)

<0.0001*,a

 Hip arthroplasty group

8/61 (13.1 %)

49/63 (77.8 %)

<0.0001*,b

 Knee arthroplasty group

4/33 (12.1 %)

21/32 (65.6 %)

<0.0001*,b

  1. Calculation performed on 95 patients in the EXP group (63 hips; 32 knees) and 94 patients in the CTR group (61 hips; 33 knees)
  2. * Significance at p < 0.05
  3. aChi-squared test with Yate’s correction
  4. bFisher’s exact test