Gender differences in patients with dizziness and unsteadiness regarding self-perceived disability, anxiety, depression, and its associations

Table 5 Associations between the Dizziness Handicap Inventory and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

Sample	n (%)	HADS		HADS-D		HADS-A
		Corr.	Partial Corr.	Corr.	Partial Corr.	Corr	partial Corr.
All	200	0.60**	0.44**	0.66**	0.50**	0.45**	0.30**
Female	124 (62)	0.53**	0.38**	0.63**	0.47**	0.35**	0.22**
Male	76 (38)	0.72**	0.53**	0.74**	0.57**	0.59**	0.41**

** significant at the 0.01 level (1-tailed)
Corr indicates the Spearman correlation coefficients, HADS-A anxiety subscale of the HADS, HADS-D depression subscale of the HADS, partial corr partial correlation: a measure of the association between the DHI and HADS controlling for the effect of symptom severity (Vertigo Symptom Scale, Dizziness Index) on the DHI and HADS.

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