Depressive Symptoms, Pain, and Quality of Life among Patients with Nonalcohol-Related Chronic Pancreatitis

Table 2

Independent 𝑡-tests between participants who met cut-off criteria for depressive symptoms and those who did not meet symptoms criteria and quality of life and pain on average.

	Depressive symptoms	No depressive symptoms	𝑡	𝑃
Physical QOL^a	34.2 ± 7.6	37.6 ± 8.2	5.3	0.0001
Mental QOL^b	44.9 ± 8.2	49.0 ± 7.3	5.3	0.0001
Pain^c	5.5 ± 2.5	3.4 ± 2.9	9.9	0.0001

𝑁=691. However, the sample size for some of the variables is smaller due to missing data. ^a𝑛=610. ^b𝑛=610. ^c𝑛=666.