Cognitive Functions and Depression in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Table 3
Patient characteristics and comparisons of patients with and without IBS in the “Depression” group.
Patient characteristics
“No IBS”
“IBS”
Statistics
Gender (female/male)
12 (60%)/8 (40%)
13 (48%)/14 (52%)
Age (years)
46.3 (16.1)
43.6 (12.4)
Education (years)
12 (7–17)
13 (9–17)
IBSSS
159 (109)
230 (89)
BDI-II
22.5 (10–49)
37 (10–54)
MADRS
24.7 (7.3)
29.5 (8.2)
MMSE
29 (23–30)
29 (25–30)
Trail Making A (simple)
44.5 (22–113)
45 (24–153)
Trail Making B (complex)
88.5 (49–361)
88 (50–361)
Grooved Pegboard Test (dominant hand)
83.5 (53–176)
76 (54–163)
Grooved Pegboard Test (not dominant hand)
89.0 (61–172)
87 (63–228)
HVLT immediate total recall
23.5 (11–29)
23.0 (15–34)
HVLT delayed recall
9 (1–12)
9 (5–12)
BVMT immediate total recall
19.5 (6.5)
19.9 (7.3)
BVMT delayed recall
8.0 (2.3)
7.6 (2.7)
WAIS-III Vocabulary
42.5 (8.7)
45.1 (8.3)
WAIS-III Digit Symbol
52.6 (21.1)
51.1 (13.2)
WAIS-III Symbol Search
24.0 (8.6)
25.9 (8.0)
Stroop 1 (Word)
38 (29–56)
38 (25–67)
Stroop 2 (Colour)
28.5 (19–45)
29 (19–52)
Stroop 3 (Interference)
67 (43–141)
57 (44–127)
COWAT (Words on F, A, and S)
33 (13–54)
32 (18–69)
COWAT (Cloths)
17.9 (5.7)
17.4 (4.6)
COWAT (Animals)
18.2 (5.2)
19.0 (5.7)
The results are given as the number (proportion in per cent), mean (SD), and median (range) and analysed with exact unconditional table analyses, -test, and Mann-Whitney test (marked with ).
