Attachment and Mentalizing Abilities in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Table 1

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the two study groups. Values denote mean (±standard deviation) or numbers of subjects.

	IBD patients	Healthy controls
Sociodemographics
Age	39.64 (±14.06)	36.30 (±12.29)	n.s.
Sex	48 female, 48 male	50 female, 52 male	n.s.
Education (years)	13.41 (±3.09)	14.07 (±2.12)	n.s.
Clinical characteristics
Disease	64 CD, 32 UC
Disease duration (years)	12.39 (±11.44)
Age at diagnosis (years)	27.56 (±12.09)
Disease activity (CDAI and PMS)	55 remission
	22 mild activity
	19 moderate activity
Therapy	19 no treatments
	29 5-ASA
	3 azathioprine
	5 corticosteroids
	40 biologic agents
Surgery	75 never treated
	21 previously treated
Psychometric measures
Eyes test	22.21 (±4.38)	24.37 (±3.17)	<.001
	Male 21.93 (±4.63)
	Female 22.48 (±4.14)		n.s.
		Male 23.47 (±3.59)
		Female 25.15 (±2.55)	.012
ASQ Confidence	30.46 (±5.52)	31.97 (±4.37)	n.s.
ASQ Discomfort with closeness	35.92 (±6.64)	34.76 (±5.47)	n.s.
ASQ Relationships as secondary	15.30 (±6.65)	15.22 (±4.97)	n.s.
ASQ Need for approval	20.73 (±5.98)	20.68 (±5.11)	n.s.
ASQ Preoccupation with relationships	28.76 (±6.65)	26.73 (±5.18)	.034
RFQ certainty	1.12 (±.99)	.99 (±.63)	n.s.
RFQ uncertainty	.72 (±.62)	.59 (±.49)	n.s.