Research Article

Unrevealed Depression Involves Dysfunctional Coping Strategies in Crohn’s Disease Patients in Clinical Remission

Table 1

Demographic and clinical features of patients included in the study.

Sex male, (%)57 (60)
Age (years), mean (SD)45 (14)
Age at diagnoses of CD (years), mean (SD)28 (10)
Disease length (years), mean (SD)20 (12)
Family history of IBD, (%)16 (16.8)
Treatment, (%)
 Immunosuppressive treatment36 (37.9)
 Treatment with anti-TNF-alpha13 (13.7)
 Mesalazine24 (25.3)
 No therapy (clinical observation)22 (23)
Crohn’s disease’s localization (%)
 Ileum42 (44.2)
 Colon13 (13.7)
 Ileocolonic40 (42.1)
 Isolated upper disease 3 (3.2)
Crohn’s disease’s behaviour (%)
 Nonstricturing, nonpenetrating28 (29.5)
 Stricturing45 (47.4)
 Penetrating22 (23.1)
 History of perianal disease10 (10.5)
Surgery, (%)
 No surgery35 (36.8)
 Conservative surgery10 (10.5)
 Resective surgery50 (52.6)
 History of surgery for perianal disease10 (10.5)