Chronic fatigue is associated with increased disease-related worries and concerns in inflammatory bowel disease

Table 4 Univariate analysis of mean rating form of inflammatory bowel disease patient concerns scores in non-chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue patients

	Mean RFIPC adjusted for age, gender and education		Mean RFIPC adjusted for age, gender, education and IBD symptoms
	No CF mean	CF mean	No CF mean	CF mean
CD (n = 48)	(n = 34)	(n = 14)	(n = 34)	(n = 14)
Impact of disease	30.7	47.6a	32.2	44.0a
Expectancy	37.3	53.0	37.8	52.0
Treatment	27.5	38.0	27.2	39.0
Intimacy	19.7	30.0	20.6	27.8
Stigma	20.9	27.3	20.8	27.6
Complications	26.4	30.3	25.9	31.8
Sum score	28.8	40.3	29.4	39.0
UC (n = 92)	(n = 72)	(n = 20)	(n = 72)	(n = 20)
Impact of disease	25.7	45.3c	26.3	43.1c
Expectancy	33.0	53.8b	33.4	52.4c
Treatment	27.9	47.8c	28.5	45.6c
Intimacy	18.7	26.7	19.0	25.6a
Stigma	17.5	34.3b	17.9	33.1c
Complications	21.4	35.0b	21.7	34.0b
Sum score	25.2	42.8c	25.6	41.2c

RFIPC: Rating form of inflammatory bowel disease patient concerns; CD: Crohn’s disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis; CF: Chronic fatigue; IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease. Significance levels are between patients reporting CF or not:

^aP≤ 0.05,

^bP≤ 0.01,

^cP≤ 0.001.