Sense of Coherence in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Table 5
Four independent linear regression analyses with SOC total and subdimension scores as dependent variables in patients with Crohn’s disease ().
Independent variables
SOC total score
Comprehensibility
Manageability
Meaningfulness
value
value
value
value
Step 1.
Gender (female = 0)
0.05
0.425
0.06
0.336
0.14
0.023
−0.09
0.103
Age in years
0.11
0.070
0.11
0.096
0.06
0.359
0.06
0.333
Education level (≤12 years = 0)
0.09
0.144
0.04
0.590
0.13
0.045
0.07
0.251
Work status (not working = 0)
−0.03
0.666
0.01
0.859
Marital status (not married/cohabitating = 0)
0.10
0.090
0.09
0.174
0.14
0.023
Current smoker (no = 0)
−0.06
0.305
−0.03
0.643
−0.11
0.063
Explained variance )
9.1%
4.7%
11.3%
8.7%
Step 2.
HBAI
0.00
0.990
−0.01
0.866
−0.01
0.856
0.02
0.694
Disease duration in years
0.08
0.186
Adverse drug reaction (no = 0)
−0.08
0.157
−0.11
0.075
−0.10
0.104
change
3.1%
2.3%
2.8%
2.3%
Step 3.
FSS-5
−0.31
<0.001
−0.17
0.012
−0.26
<0.001
−0.38
<0.001
change
11.2%
4.8%
7.4%
15.3%
Step 4.
GSE
0.42
<0.001
0.39
<0.001
0.31
<0.001
0.36
<0.001
change
15.9%
14.2%
8.7%
11.9%
Total
39.3%
26.0%
30.3%
38.2%
Abbreviations: : standardized beta coefficient; HBAI: Harvey-Bradshaw activity index; FSS-5: Five-Item Fatigue Severity Scale; GSE: General Self-Efficacy Scale. In addition to gender and age, variables that had a Pearson correlation coefficient with in bivariate analyses were included in final regression models.
