Table 2.
SOC, FSS-5, and GSE scores in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
| Ulcerative colitis | All (n = 190) | Women (n = 82) | Men (n = 108) | P value* |
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| Total SOC score, mean (SD) | 66.74 (11.75) | 66.32 (11.51) | 67.06 (11.97) | 0.665 |
| Comprehensibility | 19.33 (3.88) | 24.29 (5.36) | 24.28 (5.61) | 0.985 |
| Manageability | 25.58 (5.52) | 20.34 (3.70) | 20.84 (4.07) | 0.383 |
| Meaningfulness | 21.83 (4.04) | 21.68 (4.05) | 21.94 (4.05) | 0.660 |
| FSS-5, mean (SD) | 4.13 (1.54) | 4.37 (1.62) | 3.95 (1.45) | 0.063 |
| GSE, mean (SD) | 30.04 (5.55) | 28.67 (5.53) | 31.07 (5.37) | 0.003 |
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| Crohn's disease | All (n = 238) | Women (n = 130) | Men (n = 108) | P value* |
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| Total SOC score, mean (SD) | 65.85 (11.25) | 64.96 (11.45) | 66.92 (10.96) | 0.182 |
| Comprehensibility | 19.30 (3.93) | 24.15 (5.26) | 25.09 (4.95) | 0.160 |
| Manageability | 25.48 (5.25) | 19.58 (4.05) | 20.95 (3.71) | 0.007 |
| Meaningfulness | 21.07 (4.07) | 21.23 (4.06) | 20.87 (4.10) | 0.498 |
| FSS-5 mean (SD) | 4.49 (1.48) | 4.68 (1.55) | 4.26 (1.36) | 0.031 |
| GSE mean (SD) | 29.40 (5.44) | 29.23 (5.88) | 29.61 (4.89) | 0.601 |
Abbreviations: SOC: Sense of Coherence; FSS-5: Five-Item Fatigue Severity Scale; GSE: General Self-Efficacy Scale.
*P values estimated between women and men by independent sample t-test.