Table 5.
Sociodemographic and psychological characteristics of FD subjects with EPS, PDS, and EPS-PDS overlap
| Characteristics | EPS only (n = 35) | PDS only (n = 73) | PDS-EPS overlap (n = 124) | P value |
| Age, (yr, mean ± SD) | 38.11 ± 15.50 | 43.33 ± 15.05 | 40.57 ± 12.67 | 0.615 |
| Male sex n (%) | 11 (31.4) | 26 (35.6) | 39 (31.5) | 0.821 |
| Marital status, n (%) | 0.577 | |||
| Married | 31 (88.6) | 63 (86.3) | 102 (82.3) | |
| Single | 4 (11.4) | 10 (13.7) | 22 (17.7) | |
| Education, n (%) | 0.289 | |||
| Illiterate and up to class V | 15 (42.9) | 43 (58.9) | 68 (54.8) | |
| Class V and above | 20 (57.1) | 30 (41.1) | 56 (45.2) | |
| Family income (taka/mo)a, mean ± SD | 10,857.14 ± 6,283.23 | 9,904.11 ± 5,826.58 | 10,056.45 ± 5,836.95 | 0.954 |
| Occupation, n (%) | 0.258 | |||
| Housewife | 23 (65.7) | 44 (62.0) | 84 (67.7) | |
| Cultivation | 5 (14.3) | 11 (15.5) | 12 (9.7) | |
| Business and others | 7 (20.0) | 16 (22.5) | 28 (22.6) | |
| Religion, n (%) | 0.719 | |||
| Muslim | 22 (62.9) | 49 (67.1) | 157 (68) | |
| Hindu | 13 (37.1) | 24 (32.9) | 74 (32) | |
| Smoking (current or past), n (%) | 7 (20.0) | 12 (16.9) | 19 (15.3) | 0.801 |
| H. pylori positivity | 29 (82.9) | 57 (78.1) | 88 (71.0) | 0.273 |
| Presence of psychological stress, n (%) (cutoff value 23) | 4 (11.4) | 7 (9.6) | 11 (8.9) | 0.901 |
| Somatic symptoms (median score) | 4.0 (0–15) | 3.0 (0–14) | 3.0 (0–18) | 0.241 |
| Anxiety and insomnia (median score, range) | 1.0 (0–14) | 3.0 (0–14) | 2.0 (0–13) | 0.145 |
| Social dysfunction (median score, range) | 7.0 (3–11) | 7.0 (0–14) | 7.0 (0–16) | 0.03 |
| Depression (median score, range) | 0.0 (0–5) | 0.0 (0–8) | 0 (0–13) | 0.04 |
| Total score (median score, range) | 12.0 (6–40) | 12.0 (0–43) | 9.5 (0–45) | 0.048 |
a
1 US$ = 84.84 taka (dated August 30, 2020).
EPS, epigastric pain syndrome; FD, functional dyspepsia; PDS, postprandial distress syndrome.