Table 1.
Synthetic scores obtained from the analysis of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) questionnaires at baseline, within 1 month before lock-down and after 3 weeks of the web-based program in the 8 subjects with alcoholic liver diseases participating to the multidisciplinary group treatment. Data are reported as mean and standard deviation. Comparison was made by ANOVA for repeated measures.
Baseline | Within 1-month before lockdown | After 3 weeks of web-based program | P value | |
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CORE-OM1 | 1.92 ± 0.65 | 1.41 ± 0.34 | 1.61 ± 0.71 | 0.185 |
DERS2 | 101.86 ± 30.71 | 86.57 ± 23.38 | 84.57 ± 20.74 | 0.052 |
The CORE-OM questionnaire consists of 34 questions exploring four dimensions of the patient's feelings over the last week: 1. subjective well-being; 2. problems/symptoms; 3. life functioning; and 4. risk/harm. Higher scores indicate psychological global distress.
The DERS contains items that reflect problems with emotional regulation. It consists of the following subscales: 1. awareness of emotions (awareness); 2. understanding of emotions (clarity); 3. acceptance of emotions (non-acceptance); 4. difficulties engaging in goal-directed behavior when experiencing negative emotions (goals); 5. refrain from impulsive behavior when experiencing negative emotions (impulse subscale); 6. access to emotional regulation strategies perceived as effective (strategies).
Higher scores indicate difficulties with emotional regulation.