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Published in final edited form as: Biol Res Nurs. 2012 Nov 20;16(1):10.1177/1099800412466694. doi: 10.1177/1099800412466694

Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics

	IBS (n = 199)
Age, mean (sd) ^a^§	40.0 (14.0)

Married/ partnered (%) ^b	41%

Education, bachelor’s or higher (%) ^b	66%

Occupation ^c
Professional	40%
Technical, service and sales	25%
Students	10%
Other	25%

Psychological distress ^d
Somatization	0.49 (0.45)
Obsessive-compulsive	0.86 (0.68)
Interpersonal sensitivity	0.55 (0.62)
Depression	0.46 (0.53)
Anxiety	0.56 (0.55)
Hostility	0.38 (0.38)
Phobic anxiety	0.20 (0.49)
Paranoid ideation	0.34 (0.48)
Psychoticism	0.27 (0.42)
Global Symptom Index	0.47 (0.39)

Predominant Bowel Pattern (Rome III) ^§
Constipation	41 (21%)
Diarrhea	89 (45%)
Mixed	52 (26%)
Unsubtyped	17 (9%)

^§

reported in the previous paper