Table 3.
Urticaria symptomatology and psychological analysis of participants using three validated survey instruments before (time point 1) and after (time point 2) the 8-week ABT programme
| Number of participants | Time Point 1 Mean (SD) |
Time Point 2 Mean (SD) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Urticaria control test | |||
| < 12 = poor control | 4 | 6.7 (3.6) | 12.3 (3.3) |
| DASS | |||
| Depression | 4 | 13.5 (11.9) | 6 (6.2) |
| Anxiety | 4 | 12.5 (2.3) | 8 (3.4) |
| Stress | 4 | 21.5 (12.3) | 11 (4.7) |
| PERMA profiler | |||
| Positive emotion | 4 | 5.5 (2.1) | 7 (1.3) |
| Engagement | 4 | 9.2 (0.5) | 7.3 (1.2) |
| Relationships | 4 | 6.6 (1.7) | 7.6 |
| Meaning | 4 | 5.7 (2) | 7.7 (0.3) |
| Accomplishment | 4 | 5.9 (2.2) | 7.3 (1) |
| Overall wellbeing | 4 | 6.5 (1.5) | 7.4 (0.8) |
| Negative emotion | 4 | 5.5. (3.1) | 3.7 (0.6) |
| Health | 4 | 3.8 (1.4) | 4.7 (1.2) |
| Loneliness | 4 | 3.5 (1.6) | 5.5 (1.8) |
| FFMQ | |||
| Observation skills | 4 | 22.5 (2.7) | 25.3 (2.5) |
| Describing skills | 4 | 22.5 (3.4) | 25.5 (6.1) |
| Awareness | 4 | 24.3 (8.7) | 27.8 (1.9) |
| Non-judgemental | 4 | 23 (10) | 29.8 (4) |
| Non-reactivity | 4 | 15.8 (6.1) | 24.3 (3.3) |