Association of Psychological Characteristics and Functional Dyspepsia Treatment Outcome: A Case-Control Study

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of Chinese FD patients.

	Improvement (); Mean ± SD/n (%)	Nonimprovement (); Mean ± SD/n (%)		value
Age (years)	47.14 ± 11.79	47.82 ± 11.11	−0.30	0.763
Gender			0.22	0.637
Male	15 (35.71)	21 (31.34)
Female	27 (64.29)	46 (68.66)
BMI			2.07	0.355
<18.5	5 (11.90)	12 (17.91)
18.5–25	35 (83.33)	48 (71.64)
>25	2 (4.76)	7 (10.45)
Marriage status			8.00	0.005
Good marriage	39 (92.86)	47 (70.15)
Others	3 (7.14)	20 (29.85)
Occupation			0.35	0.553
Employed	25 (59.52)	36 (53.73)
Others	17 (40.48)	31 (46.27)
Education level			0.02	0.883
Lower than high school	27 (64.29)	44 (65.67)
High school and above	15 (35.71)	23 (34.33)