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Associations between change in GERD-knowledge from 2 to 12 months follow-up and change in QoL-scores (DSIQ and GHQ-30 and their subscales). |
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| Digestive Symptoms and Impact Questionnaire – DSIQ |
General Health Questionnaire v. 30 – GHQ-30 |
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| Pain & bowel s. |
Gastric dysfunc. |
Health impair. |
Life impair. |
Reflux |
Sum score |
Anxiety |
Well-being |
Depr. |
Coping |
Social dysfunc. |
Likert sum sc |
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| All patients |
0.2 (0.18) |
0.2 (0.18) |
0.1 (0.59) |
0.3 (0.10) |
0.02 (0.84) |
0.3 (0.13) |
0.44 (0.25) |
0.38 (0.46) |
0.30 (0.50) |
0.8 (0.06) |
0.2 (0.60) |
0.03 (0.15) |
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| Advanced school |
0.1 (0.65) |
0.0 (1.0) |
0.2 (0.51) |
0.1 (0.66) |
0.05 (0.76) |
0.02 (0.57) |
0.6 (0.16) |
- 0.8 (0.22) |
0.8 (0.22) |
1.0 (0.05) |
0.2 (0.49) |
0.04 (0.08) |
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| Primary school only |
0.5 (0.09) |
0.7 (0.01) |
0.07 (0.81) |
0.8 (0.01) |
- 0.01 (0.95) |
0.8 (0.04) |
- 0.04 (0.96) |
- 0.43 (0.63) |
- 0.2 (0.79) |
0.2 (0.81) |
- 0.04 (0.95) |
0.0 (0.92) |
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Numbers are β-values (p) in linear regression analyses adjusted for selected baseline variables (see text) with change in GERD-knowledge as dependent variable. Positive numbers indicate a reduced quality of life with increasing GERD-knowledge. β-values (p < 0.05) are in bold. | ||||||||||||
Urnes et al. BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:236 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-236 |
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