Evaluation of the Quick Environmental Exposure and Sensitivity Inventory in a Danish Population
Table 1
Characteristics of the patient and the population samples.
Population sample
Patient sample
-value1
Men
Women
Total
Men
Women
Total
600
705
1305
25
163
188
Age, mean (sd)
47.4 (14.1)
46.8 (14.3)
47.1 (14.2)
52.4 (14.7)
56.0 (10.8)
55.5 (11.5)
<0.0001
QEESI (median)
-value2
āSymptoms
9.0
14.0
11.0
35.0
48.0
47.0
<0.0001
āChemical Int.
11.0
15.0
13.0
81.6
82.2
82.1
<0.0001
āOther Int.
6.0
12.0
10.0
27.3
35.5
35.0
<0.0001
āLife Impact
0.0
3.0
2.0
70.0
64.0
65.0
<0.0001
āMasking Index
4.0
4.0
4.0
2.0
2.0
2.0
<0.0001
SCL-92 (median)
āDepression
0.15
0.31
0.23
0.62
0.69
0.69
<0.0001
āSomatisation
0.25
0.33
0.33
0.83
1.0
1.0
<0.0001
SCL-92 (mean)
āDepression
0.39
0.53
0.47
1.0
0.86
0.88
ā
āSomatisation
0.38
0.51
0.45
1.0
1.13
1.12
ā
Occupational social class ( (%))
-value3
<0.0001
I + II:
224 (17.2)
17 (9.0)
III + IV:
426 (32.6)
35 (18.5)
V + VI + VII:
566 (43.4)
124 (65.6)
Missing:
89 (6.8)
13 (6.9)
Occupational social class: I + II: professionals and executives and medium-level white-collar employees; III + IV: low-level white-collar employees and skilled workers; V + VI + VII: unskilled and semiskilled workers, individuals receiving pension or disability benefits, and students. 1Independent samplesāā-test for equality of means (total) between population and patient samples. 2Mann-Whitney test (total) comparing population and patient samples. 3Chi-squared test comparing population and patient samples.