Table II.

Alterations in Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia, Japanese version scores during maintenance therapy.

	Baseline	8 weeks	16 weeks	24 weeks
Continuous group
Overall average	6.34 ± 0.12	6.35 ± 0.13	6.52 ± 0.10	6.66 ± 0.07
Emotional distress	6.21 ± 0.14	6.22 ± 0.16	6.51 ± 0.11	6.55 ± 0.09
Sleep disturbance	6.20 ± 0.17	6.13 ± 0.19	6.45 ± 0.13	6.69 ± 0.07
Food/Drink problems	6.25 ± 0.12	6.33 ± 0.13	6.40 ± 0.13	6.56 ± 0.09
Physical/Social functioning	6.62 ± 0.13	6.77 ± 0.07	6.81 ± 0.05	6.85 ± 0.04
Vitality	6.41 ± 0.13	6.28 ± 0.15	6.44 ± 0.13	6.67 ± 0.07
On-demand group
Overall average	6.30 ± 0.14	6.42 ± 0.08	6.39 ± 0.11	6.37 ± 0.14
Emotional distress	6.13 ± 0.17	6.33 ± 0.11	6.31 ± 0.13	6.26 ± 0.15
Sleep disturbance	6.33 ± 0.13	6.38 ± 0.09	6.25 ± 0.14	6.36 ± 0.14
Food/Drink problems	6.18 ± 0.15	6.31 ± 0.11	6.47 ± 0.08	6.38 ± 0.13
Physical/Social functioning	6.57 ± 0.13	6.75 ± 0.07	6.79 ± 0.06	6.59 ± 0.14
Vitality	6.28 ± 0.15	6.34 ± 0.11	6.11 ± 0.19	6.26 ± 0.17

Data are shown as mean + SE.