Sense of Coherence in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Table 4
Four independent linear regression analyses with SOC total and subdimension scores as dependent variables in patients with ulcerative colitis ().
Independent variables
SOC total score
Comprehensibility
Manageability
Meaningfulness
value
value
value
value
Step 1.
Gender (female = 0)
−0.13
0.030
−0.15
0.021
−0.08
0.219
−0.08
0.211
Age
0.00
0.998
−0.01
0.527
−0.06
0.328
0.06
0.388
Education level (12 years = 0)
0.07
0.233
Work status (not working = 0)
−0.01
0.677
Marital status (not married/cohabitating = 0)
0.14
0.021
0.11
0.100
0.10
0.111
0.16
0.018
Explained variance ()
6.2%
7.0%
4.8%
6.2%
Step 2.
SCCAI
−0.02
0.744
−0.06
0.311
−0.02
0.814
Comorbidities (no = 0)
−0.03
0.638
−0.03
0.624
change
2.9%
2.9%
2.2%
0.01%
Step 3.
FSS-5
−0.40
<0.001
−0.42
<0.001
−0.33
<0.001
−0.25
<0.001
change
19.0%
20.1%
13.3%
9.3%
Step 4.
GSE
0.44
<0.001
0.39
<0.001
0.39
<0.001
0.36
<0.001
change
16.0%
13.0%
13.6%
11.5%
Total
44.8%
43.0%
33.8%
27.0%
Abbreviations: : standardized beta coefficient; SCCAI: simple clinical colitis activity index; FSS-5: Five-Item Fatigue Severity Scale; GSE: General Self-Efficacy Scale. In addition to gender and age, variables that had a Pearson correlation coefficient with in bivariate analyses were included in final regression models.
