A Measure of Suffering in relation to Anxiety and Quality of Life in IBS Patients: Preliminary Results

Table 3

Differences in health related QoL (IBS-36, physical and mental component of SF-36), anxiety (STAI-T and VSI), symptom severity, and self-illness separation (SIS) between patients with low and medium IPM score.

		Cohen’s	(SD)	(SD)
IBS-36	−1.78	0.43	44.90 (31.52)	63.62 (32.24)
SF-PC	1.83	0.60	78.14 (13.28)	69.95 (14.23)
SF-MC	2.24	0.70	70.98 (17.03)	57.25 (21.78)
STAI-T	−1.86	0.66	33.06 (13.13)	40.54 (9.15)
VSI	−2.36	0.83	24.74 (14.49)	35.23 (10.38)
Symptom severity	−2.54	0.76	1.32 (0.38)	1.62 (0.29)
SIS	2.44	0.80	51.81 (24.00)	32.31 (24.76)

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