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Table 3 Sleep quality, depression, anxiety and medications between RLS- and RLS+

From: Restless legs syndrome in end stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis

  

Patients with ESRD, N (%)

 

RLS- (n = 109)

RLS+ (n = 28)

P- value

PSQI

 

7 (4-10)

11 (5.25-13)

0.001

Sleep disorder

 

73 (67.0%)

25 (89.3%)

0.020

HADS-D

 

5 (1-9)

3 (1-7)

0.622

Depression

No symptom

70 (64.2%)

22 (78.6%)

0.251

Suspicious

20 (18.3%)

1 (3.6%)

 

Confirmed

19 (17.4%)

5 (17.9%)

 

HADS-A

 

2 (0-4)

3 (1-6.5)

0.151

Anxiety

No symptom

99 (91%)

25 (89.3%)

0.773

Suspicious

6 (5.5%)

1 (3.6%)

 

Confirmed

4 (3.7%)

2 (7.1%)

 

Medications

Anti-anemia Medicine

85 (78.0%)

23 (82.1%)

0.631

Sedative hypnotics

10 (9.2%)

7 (25.0%)

0.047

  1. Abbreviations: ESRD end stage renal disease, RLS restless legs syndrome, RLS- without RLS, RLS+ with RLS, PSQI Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, HADS-D Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale of Depression, HADS-A HADS-Anxiety