Table 2.

Correlations between OIC and PAC-QoL factors

Factor	Cancer pain	Non-cancer pain
Younger age	0.209**	0.188**
Less time on opioids	0.201*	0.131*
OIC symptoms
Painful bowel movements	0.655**	0.634**
Abdominal pain	0.663**	0.564**
Incomplete bowel movement	0.564**	0.576**
Abdominal bloating	0.520**	0.539**
Difficulty in bowel movement	0.436**	0.521**

Correlation coefficients are shown

*Significant at P = 0.05 (2-tailed)

**Significant at P = 0.01 (2-tailed)