Table 2. Demographic, clinical, and psychiatric characteristics and serum tryptase levels of the patients with anaphylaxis according to IES-R-K.
| Characteristics | IES-R-K | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal: IES-R-K ≤ 24 (n = 119) | Mild-to-moderate: 25 ≤ IES-R-K ≤ 39 (n = 37) | Severe: IES-R-K ≥ 40 (n = 47) | |||
| Sex (female) | 67 (56.3) | 19 (51.4) | 34 (72.3) | 0.095 | |
| Age | 43.2 ± 14.5 | 46.2 ± 14.1 | 44.3 ± 14.9 | 0.409 | |
| Psychological diseases | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | 5 (10.7) | 0.009 | |
| Prior anaphylaxis | 27/93 (29.0) | 8/29 (27.6) | 18/36 (50.0) | 0.058 | |
| Severity of anaphylaxis | 0.484 | ||||
| Nonsevere | 51 (42.9) | 20 (54.1) | 22 (46.8) | ||
| Severe | 68 (57.1) | 17 (45.9) | 25 (53.2) | ||
| K-BAI | 7.6 ± 8.4 | 14.5 ± 12.4 | 26.2 ± 14.0 | < 0.0001 | |
| K-BAI ≥ 22 | 9 (7.6) | 10 (27.0) | 28 (59.6) | < 0.0001 | |
| K-BDI | 8.2 ± 7.4 | 13.0 ± 8.9 | 20.3 ± 10.2 | < 0.0001 | |
| K-BDI ≥ 17 | 16 (13.4) | 13 (35.1) | 28 (59.6) | < 0.0001 | |
| Levels at the anaphylaxis | |||||
| Log (serum tryptase) | 1.19 ± 0.52/32 | 0.72 ± 0.38/12 | 0.82 ± 0.69/15 | 0.067 | |
| Levels at the recovery | |||||
| Log (serum tryptase) | 0.55 ± 0.24/77 | 0.46 ± 0.17/23 | 0.47 ± 0.30/31 | 0.017 | |
Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation or number (%).
IES-R-K, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised-Korean version; K-BAI, Korean version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory; K-BDI, Korean version of the Beck Depression Inventory.