Sustaining, Forming, and Letting Go of Friendships for Young People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): A Qualitative Interview-Based Study

Table 1

Key demographics of participants.

ID	Gender	Age years (age diagnosed)	Diagnosis	Surgery (stoma)	Disease activity^(1–4)
2	Female	14 (11)	Crohn’s	No	Mild^4
4	Male	14 (13)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^4
7	Male	14 (12)	Crohn’s	No	Mild^4
3	Male	15 (9)	Crohn’s	Yes (stoma)	Remission^4
5	Male	15 (9)	Crohn’s	Yes	Mild^4
16	Male	15 (11)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^4
17	Female	15 (12)	Crohn’s	No	Moderate^4
27	Female	15 (11)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^4
1	Female	16 (11)	Crohn’s	No	Mild^4
6	Female	16 (13)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^4
14	Female	16 (10)	Crohn’s	Yes	Remission^4
15	Male	16 (15)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^4
28	Female	19 (8)	Crohn’s	Yes	Remission^3
21	Female	20 (19)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^3
24	Male	20 (12)	Crohn’s	No	Mild^3
31	Female	20 (12)	Crohn’s	Yes	Moderate^3
23	Male	21 (14)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^3
25	Male	21 (20)	Crohn’s	Yes (stoma)	Remission^3
19	Male	22 (21)	Crohn’s	Yes	Remission^3
12	Female	23 (15)	Crohn’s	Yes	Mild^3
22	Male	24 (16)	Crohn’s	No	Moderate^3
30	Male	24 (19)	Crohn’s	No	Remission^3
18	Female	25 (23)	Crohn’s	Yes	Mild^3
29	Female	25 (23)	Crohn’s	Yes	Mild^3
13	Female	16 (15)	Ulcerative colitis	No	Remission^1
26	Male	16 (12)	Ulcerative colitis	No	Mild^1
9	Female	21 (8)	Ulcerative colitis	No	Remission^2
11	Female	21 (16)	Ulcerative colitis	No	Moderate^2
10	Male	23 (20)	Ulcerative colitis	No	Moderate^2
20	Male	24 (22)	Ulcerative colitis	No	Remission^2
8	Male	14 (12)	IBD unclassified	No	Remission^1

¹Paediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index (PUCAI); ²Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index (SSCAI); ³Harvey-Bradshaw Index (HB Index); ⁴weighted Paediatric Crohn’s Disease Activity Index (wPCDAI).