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

Table 3

Sources of stress for those with fluctuating symptoms from month 0 to month 3.

Sources of stress	⁢Inactive to active symptom pattern ()				⁢Active to inactive symptom pattern ()
	⁢Mean rating frequency of stressor		⁢Proportion reporting high frequency		⁢Mean rating frequency of stressor		⁢Proportion reporting high frequency
	Month 0	Month 3	Month 0	Month 3	Month 0	Month 3	Month 0	Month 3
IBD	1.17	1.66	5.7%	20.0%	1.77	1.38	20.0%	13.5%
Other health	1.17 (.87, 1.47)	1.29 (.95, 1.63)	8.6%	5.7%	1.61	1.62	25.0%	21.6%
Finance	1.71	1.37 (.91, 1.83)	28.6%	22.9%	1.22 (.91, 1.54)	1.35 (.99, 1.71)	5.6%	18.9%
Work/school	1.60	1.14 (.76, 1.53)	25.7%	14.3%	1.34 (.93, 1.76)	1.27 (.83, 1.71)	20.0%	29.7%
Family	1.83	1.29 (.94, 1.64)	31.4%	8.6%	1.72	1.81	25.0%	27.8%
Relationship separation	.37 (.12, .62)	.12 (−.03, .26)	2.9%	0%	.54 (.20, .89)	.38 (.11, .64)	5.7%	2.7%
Conflict with someone close	1.00 (.67, 1.33)	.51 (.25, .78)	3.1%	2.9%	1.19 (.81, 1.58)	1.08	19.4%	10.8%
Important life events	.60 (.29, .91)	.46 (.12, .79)	5.7%	5.7%	.86 (.46, 1.26)	.92 (.53, 1.31)	13.9%	10.8%
Death or possible death of someone close	.51 (.20, .83)	.34 (.06, .63)	8.6%	5.7%	.78 (.39, 1.17)	1.05 (.63, 1.48)	8.3%	10.8%
Other stressors	1.00 (.53, 1.47)	.94 (.48, 1.40)	17.6%	17.1%	.81 (.42, 1.19)	.73 (.32, 1.14)	8.3%	13.5%

Note. Each source of stress was rated on a 5-point scale that included the following anchors: 0 (none of the time), 1 (a little of the time), 2 (some of the time), 3 (most of the time), and 4 (all of the time). Highly frequent stress was considered a rating of 3 or 4 (most or all of the time) on this rating scale.
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 shown in Table 2 are indicated with this superscript and bold font.