any level of symptom experience) for all participants. The table gives means and standard deviations of the PSS scores, and medians of the CRPPlasma and EBV-Ab levels. For nine of the 12 symptoms, women who reported the symptom had a significantly higher PSS score compared to women who did not report the symptom (p ? 0.001). Women with hot flashes and headaches had higher PSS scores, with p-values of 0.004 and 0.006, respectively – slightly above the conservative Bonferroni correction of p ? 0.001. EBV-Ab and CRPPlasma values were not significantly higher among women reporting any symptom.
Table 2 Bivariate comparisons of stress levels by symptom complaints. Means ± standard deviations for PSS scores or medians for CRPPlasma and EBV-Ab levels shown
The total number of reported symptoms for each individual was significantly correlated with the PSS score (two-tailed Spearman correlations, ? = 0.42, p < 0.001),>Plasma (? = ? 0.02, ns) nor EBV-Ab (? = ? 0.08, ns) levels. The total symptom intensity score was significantly correlated with the PSS score (? = 0.46, p < 0.001)>
Table 3 presents the covariates that remained in the models following backwards stepwise logistic regression for each symptom among all participants.