Creation and validation of a bladder dysfunction symptom score for HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis

Table 5 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient between question items in HAM/TSP-bladder dysfunction symptom score (HAM-BDSS)

		Storage symptom				Voiding symptom				Correlation with storage symptoms	Correlation with voiding symptoms
		Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Q6	Q7	Q8	Correlation with storage symptoms	Correlation with voiding symptoms
Storage symptom	Q1		0.392	0.408	0.314	0.359	0.279	0.255	0.071	0.702	0.350
	Q2	0.392		0.347	0.264	0.168	0.148	0.131	0.068	0.624	0.185
	Q3	0.408	0.347		0.731	0.279	0.156	0.200	0.148	0.851	0.269
	Q4	0.314	0.264	0.731		0.165	0.118	0.133	0.133	0.784	0.193
Voiding symptom	Q5	0.359	0.168	0.279	0.165		0.286	0.340	0.184	0.332	0.630
	Q6	0.279	0.148	0.156	0.118	0.286		0.545	0.283	0.236	0.760
	Q7	0.255	0.131	0.200	0.133	0.340	0.545		0.304	0.241	0.760
	Q8	0.071	0.068	0.148	0.133	0.184	0.283	0.304		0.145	0.632

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