Psychosocial and clinical impact of COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to the quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study, Egypt

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 4 Correlation between perceived fear of COVID-19 infection and associated psychological symptoms and quality of life in patients with RA

Variable	FCV	P-value
Variable	Pearson correlation (r)	P-value
SCL (somatization)	0.12	0.224
SCL (OC)	0.27	0.006
SCL (interpersonal sensitivity)	0.21	0.035
SCL (depression)	0.17	0.094
SCL (anxiety)	0.18	0.077
SCL (hostility)	0.24	0.017
SCL (phobic)	0.26	0.010
SCL (paranoid)	0.20	0.051
SCL (psychoticism)	0.20	0.043
Total	0.22	0.028
GSI	0.22	0.028
PST	0.21	0.038
PSDI	0.18	0.071
QOL (physical)	−0.01	0.953
QOL (psychological)	0.06	0.545
QOL (social)	0.13	0.202
QOL (environment)	0.01	0.957
QOL (total)	0.04	0.680

Significant values at P < 0.05 are presented as bold
FCV-19S Fear of COVID-19 scale, SCL-90 Symptom Checklist-90 scale, OC Obsessive-compulsive, GSI Global Severity Index, PST Positive Symptoms Total, PSDI Positive Symptom Distress Index, QoL quality of life