Table 3

Characteristics and psychological test (STAI-I, II, ZSDS) scores of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorder


Abused
Non-abused
p-Value

irritable bowel syndrome (n = 48)
n = 6
n = 42

Age (years)
28 (25,34.75)
31.5 (19.75,39.5)
0.6966 (a)
female [N (%)]
4 (66.7)
17 (40.5)
0.3827 (b)
Duration of disease (months)
10.5 (6.5,75)
16 (6.75,40.5)
0.9130 (a)
STAI-I*
59.5 ± 6.6
56.7 ± 8.7
0.4541 (c)
STAI-II*
67 ± 5.8
56.6 ± 12.0
0.0047 (c)
ZSDS*
53 ± 10.5
53.5 ± 9.1
0.9021 (c)
self-injury [N (%)]
2 (33.3)
13 (31)
1.0000 (b)

functional dyspepsia (n = 40)
n = 3
n = 37

Age (years)
31 (27,39)
37 (24,51.5)
0.7775 (a)
female [N (%)]
2 (66.7)
20 (54.1)
1.0000 (b)
Duration of disease (months)
42 (3,96)
20 (8.5,73.5)
0.8572 (a)
STAI-I*
60 ± 8.2
54.2 ± 12.7
0.4445 (c)
STAI-II*
59 ± 5.3
54.7 ± 13.3
0.3167 (c)
ZSDS*
54.7 ± 7.5
50.1 ± 8.9
0.3910 (c)
self-injury [N (%)]
0 (0)
4 (10.8)
1.0000 (b)

* The results are expressed as mean ± SD.

†The results are expressed as medians (25%, 75%).

p-Values estimated by Mann-Whitney U test (a), Fisher's exact test (b), unpaired t-test (two tailed) (c) or chi-square test with Yates's correction(d)

Handa et al. BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2008 2:8   doi:10.1186/1751-0759-2-8