Table 3.
Patient self-assessments (n = 52)
| Score | Baseline | Follow-up |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 4 | Week 12 | Week 24 | ||
| PAC-SYM score | 2.0 ± 0.2 | 1.2 ± 0.6** | 1.4 ± 0.6**†† | 1.6 ± 0.6**†† |
| Number of patients with improvement ≥1 PAC-SYM score | – | 29 (55.8) | 24 (46.2) | 19 (36.5)† |
| PAC-QOL score | 2.0 ± 0.2 | 1.1 ± 0.6** | 1.4 ± 0.6**†† | 1.6 ± 0.6**†† |
| Number of patients with improvement ≥1 PAC-QOL score | – | 31 (59.6) | 25 (48.1) | 20 (38.5)† |
| Number of patients satisfied with treatment (score = 4 or 5) | – | 33 (63.5) | 28 (53.8) | 21 (40.4)† |
PAC-SYM, Patient Assessment of Constipation Symptoms; PAC-QOL, Patient Assessment of Constipation Quality of Life. Continuous data are presented as mean ± standard deviation, while categorical data are presented as number (%). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 for the comparison with baseline; †P < 0.05, ††P < 0.01 for the comparison with week 4.