Research Article
The Rating Form of IBD Patient Concerns: Translation, Validation, and First Implementation of the Greek Version
Table 1
Patients’ characteristics.
| | CD
(N = 96) | UC
(N = 104) | p value |
| | Sex | | Females | 50 (52.1) | 53 (51) | N/S | | Age (mean) | 39.2 | 42.1 | N/S | | Residence | | Rural | 48 (50) | 53 (51) | N/S | | Urban | 48 (50) | 51 (49.0) | | Level of education | | <12 years | 64 (66.7) | 62 (59.6) | N/S | | >12 years | 32 (33.3) | 42 (40.4) | | Marital status | | Single | 25 (26.1) | 40 (38.5) | 0.01 | | Married | 63 (65.6) | 50 (48.1) | | Divorced/widowed | 8 (08.3) | 14 (13.4) | | Employment status | | Unemployed | 20 (20.8) | 20 (19.2) | N/S | | Part-time employed | 21 (21,9) | 22 (21.2) | | Full-time employed | 47 (49.0) | 50 (48.1) | | Pensioner | 8 (08.3) | 12 (11.5) | | | Smoking | | Yes | 34 (35.4) | 27 (26) | N/S | | No | 62 (64.6) | 77 (74) | | Duration (mean) | 9.11 | 9.47 | N/S | | Short disease activity | | Recession | 30 (31.3) | 37 (35.6) | N/S | | Active | 66 (68.7) | 67 (64.4) | | Long disease activity | | No | 68 (70.8) | 74 (71.2) | N/S | | Yes | 28 (29.2) | 30 (28.8) |
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CD: Crohn’s disease; UC: ulcerative colitis; N/S: nonsignificant; : statistically significant.
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