Fig. 3.
Associations of symptom severity and proctocolectomy with patient-reported outcomes. Data indicate SMD and their 95% confidence intervals. The fraction of variance of symptom severity explained by each outcome is shown in parentheses. The magnitude of the effect size was interpreted as: small, SMD = 0.2; medium, SMD = 0.5; and large, SMD = 0.8 [39]. Total number of patients included in the analysis were: SIBDQ (N = 1956), FACIT-F (N = 1935), HADS-D (N = 1958), HADS-A (N = 1958), WPAI-A (N = 1346), WPAI-P (N = 1346), WPAI-L (N = 1346), WPAI-I (N = 1909), and PSQI (N = 1917) (see Table 3 footnotes for breakdown by patient group). FACIT-F Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy – Fatigue, HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (A, anxiety; D, depression), PSQI Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, SIBDQ Short Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire, SMD standardized mean difference, WPAI Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (A, absenteeism; I, impairment of activity; L, loss of productivity; P, presenteeism)
