Disability in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Correlations with Quality of Life and Patient’s Characteristics

Table 6

Predictors for increased overall disability among population characteristics on the basis of multiple linear regression in patients with ulcerative colitis.

	Adjusted square	Unstandardized; coefficients				95% confidence interval for		Collinearity statistics
			Std Error			Lower bound	Upper bound	VIF
Long activity		6.430	1.065	6.036	0.001	4.316	8.545	1.212
Education		6.298	1.126	−5.591	0.001	−8.534	−4.062	1.589
Extensive; disease; (beyond splenic flexure)	0.700	3.023	1.093	2.767	0.007	0.854	5.192	1.550
Place of; residence; (rural)		3.894	1.063	3.663	0.001	1.784	6.003	1.252
Marital; status; (celibacy)		NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Employment; status; (full-time job)		2.204	0.954	2.311	0.023	0.311	4.097	1.212

NS: nonstatistically significant; : statistically significant.