Assessing the Relationship between Sources of Stress and Symptom Changes among Persons with IBD over Time: A Prospective Study

Table 1

Level of general stress (CPSS score) at month 0 and month 3 for participants with stable (inactive or active) or fluctuating (increasing or decreasing) symptom patterns.

Symptom pattern	Month 0 mean general stress (95% CI)	Month 3 mean general stress (95% CI)	Correlation of general stress at months 0 and 3 (95% CI)
Persistently inactive ()	18.12 (17.10, 19.14)	17.46 (16.46, 18.45)	.71 (0.64, 0.76)
Inactive to active ()	20.84 (18.01, 23.67)	21.71	.78 (0.61, 0.88)
Active to inactive ()	23.31	22.19	.72 (0.52, 0.85)
Persistently active ()	23.62	23.64	.74 (0.61, 0.80)

Means and confidence intervals that do not overlap with the corresponding mean rating and confidence intervals at that month in the persistently inactive symptom pattern group are indicated with this superscript and bold font.