TABLE 1.

Demographic and Disease Characteristics of Participants in Study 1

Variable	Crohn’s Disease (CD)	Ulcerative Colitis (UC)
	N = 142	N = 125
Sex: Female, n (%)	64 (45.1%)	78 (54.9%)
Marital status, n (%)
Married/common-law	93 (66.0%)	78 (62.4%)
Separated/divorced/widowed	8 (5.7%)	17 (13.6%)
Single/never married	40 (28.4%)	30 (24.0%)
Mean number of years of education	14.2 (SD = 2.7)	14.3 (SD = 2.8)
Mean age, in years	54.7 (SD = 13.0)	56.9 (SD = 13.1)
Mean age at diagnosis, in years	31.6 (SD = 12.7)	35.2 (SD = 13. 2)
<17 years, n (%)	34 (24.3%)	18 (15.0%)
17–39 years, n (%)	85 (60.7%)	74 (61.7%)
≥40 years, n (%)	21 (15.0%)	28 (23.3%)
Previous IBD-related surgery, n (%)	78 (56.5%)	3 (2.5%)
Current smoker, n (%)	27 (19.3%)	13 (10.7%)
Medication use in previous 3 months, n (%)
Prednisone	9 (6.7%)	14 (11.7%)
Biologic agent	60 (43.5%)	24 (20.0%)
Manitoba IBD Index, proportion active (symptoms ≥ a few days every other week), n (%)	26 (18.7%)	19 (15.6%)