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Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Surviv. 2023 Mar 14;17(3):646–656. doi: 10.1007/s11764-023-01354-9

Table 4.

Mean Symptom Scale Scores by cGVHD Disease Site

Symptom Scales No cGVHD Reference (n = 19) Eyes (n = 47) Mouth (n = 31) Skin (n = 28) Lungs (n = 27) Joints (n = 24) GI Tract (n = 18)
IDAS
 Depression 35.1 37.2 38.6 42.4 * 40.7 42.3 43.4 *
(8.7) (9.4) (8.9) (11.4) (12.0) (13.4) (10.4)
 Panic 10.4 12.4 14.3 * 12.9 13.4 * 13.3 * 15.3 *
(3.2) (4.4) (4.6) (4.6) (4.6) (4.9) (5.7)
 Intrusive Thoughts 4.6 4.9 5.1 5.5 5.1 5.5 5.6
(1.0) (1.3) (1.5) (2.0) (1.5) (2.2) (1.8)
FSI
 Intensity 3.0 3.6 3.9 4.1* 4.2* 4.1 4.4 *
(2.0) (1.9) (1.8) (1.9) (2.0) (2.2) (1.8)
 Interference 1.5 1.8 2.3 2.9 * 2.7 2.8 2.9 *
(1.9) (2.2) (2.3) (2.3) (2.5) (2.4) (2.1)
BPI
 Intensity 1.5 2.0 2.6 2.9 * 2.6 2.8 3.2 *
(1.9) (2.1) (2.3) (2.3) (2.3) (2.7) (2.3)
 Interference 1.3 1.9 2.4 2.8 * 2.4 2.9* 2.8
(1.9) (2.3) (2.4) (2.4) (2.5) (2.9) (2.5)
ISI
 Total 8.0 7.3 8.3 9.4 8.6 9.3 9.1
(6.2) (4.9) (5.0) (4.4) (5.7) (4.7) (4.4)
PROMIS
 Cognition 20.5 21.1 20.7 19.3 21.4 20.5 18.9
(5.7) (4.2) (4.4) (4.5) (4.6) (4.2) (4.1)
 Sexual Function 2.7 1.7 1.2 * 1.6 1.3 * 1.6 0.6 *
(1.9) (1.8) (1.6) (1.9) (1.9) (2.0) (1.1)
LSS
 Total N/A 50.2 53.0 54.6 52.4 56.0 56.5
(11.3) (10.5) (11.2) (12.8) (11.3) (12.0)

Note. Standard deviations are shown in parentheses. Disease sites are not mutually exclusive. Some participants are in more than one disease site category.

*=

p < .05 for comparison between reference and subgroup. Bolded values are statistically significant after FDR procedure.