Evaluation of Alexithymia, Somatosensory Sensitivity, and Health Anxiety Levels in Patients with Noncardiac Chest Pain

Table 4

TAS sub-scale scores distribution of the study population.

	Patient group; (𝑛=51)	Control group; (𝑛=51)	𝑃
DIF	17.0±4.2	14.8±4.9	0.016
DDF	14.7±2.9	12.9±3.2	0.005
EOT	23.7±2.9	21.7±3.5	0.002

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation.
TAS: Toronto alexithymia scale; DIF: Difficulty identifying feelings; DDF: Difficulty describing feelings; EOT: Externally oriented thinking.