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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Gastroenterol. 2009 Jul;43(6):541–550. doi: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318189a7f9

Table 1. Health Related Quality of Life and Psychosocial Features (N=1966).

TOTAL
Mean ± SD
QOL Total Score 51.1 ± 21.9
Relationship 62.86 ± 26.7
Sexual 60.2 ± 32.9
Body image 56.8 ± 26.7
Health worry 53.7 ± 24.3
Social reaction 53.4 ± 27.5
Interfere w/ activity 48.8 ± 26.0
Dysphoria 45.6 ±28.4
Food avoidance 32.0 ± 27.4
Stress/pressure/tension affect your health N (%)
Never 48 (2.4)
Occasionally 698 (35.5)
Often 659 (33.5)
All time 561 (28.5)
HADS Score Clinical Diagnosis
Mean ± SD N (%)
Anxiety 10.1 ± 4.4 925 (47.0)
Depression 6.2 ± 4.0 270 (13.7)
BEST Individual Questions N (%)
Do you feel tense or wound up
Not at all 127 (6.5)
From time to time, occasionally 823 (41.9)
A lot of the time 674 (34.3)
Most of the time 342 (17.4)
Can you still enjoy things you used to enjoy
Definitely as much 506 (25.7)
Not quite as much 1177 (59.9)
Only a little 170 (8.6)
Hardly at all 113 (5.7)