Table 2.
Stigma scale scores among patients with Crohn’s disease (n = 146).
| Variables | Score (Mean ± SD) | Item mean score (Mean ± SD) |
n (%) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low level | Moderate level | High level | |||
| Stigma | 58.14 ± 10.74 | 2.42 ± 0.45 | 21 (14.4) | 110 (75.3) | 15 (10.3) |
| Internalized shame | 12.76 ± 2.55 | 2.55 ± 0.51 | 8 (5.5) | 108 (74.0) | 30 (20.5) |
| Social isolation | 16.85 ± 3.84 | 2.41 ± 0.55 | 21 (14.4) | 100 (68.5) | 25 (17.1) |
| Financial insecurity | 8.81 ± 1.87 | 2.94 ± 0.62 | 2 (1.4) | 67 (45.9) | 77 (52.7) |
| Social rejection | 19.72 ± 4.38 | 2.19 ± 0.49 | 35 (24.0) | 103 (70.5) | 8 (5.5) |