Sense of Coherence in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Table 1
Characteristics of patients with ulcerative colitis () and Crohn’s disease ().
Characteristics
UC
CD
value
Sociodemographic characteristics
Age, median (range)
41 (20–79)
38 (18–75)
0.019
Female gender (, %)
82 (43)
130 (55)
0.018
Education > 12 years (, %)
92 (49)
108 (46)
0.558
Work status = working/student (, %)
134 (71)
148 (62)
0.064
Marital status = married/cohabitating (, %)
149 (78)
160 (67)
0.012
Current smoking, yes (, %)
15 (8)
65 (27)
<0.001
Disease-related characteristics
Disease duration in years, median (range)
6 (0.2–45)
11 (0.1–44)
<0.001
HBAI median (range)
5 (0–30)
SCCAI median (range)
4 (0–15)
Previous surgery for IBD (, %)
13 (7)
130 (55)
<0.001
Comorbidities, yes (, %)
84 (45)
88 (37)
0.137
Adverse drug reaction, yes (, %)
107 (57)
142 (60)
0.487
Abbreviations: UC: ulcerative colitis; CD: Crohn’s disease; HBAI: Harvey-Bradshaw activity index; SCCAI: simple clinical colitis activity index. Continuous variables were assessed by the Mann-Whitney test. Chi-squared test () was used to compare proportions.
