Assessment of disease specific knowledge and health-related quality of life among United States military veterans with inflammatory bowel disease

Table 3 Inflammatory bowel disease characteristics and Crohn’s and Colitis knowledge score sub-domains

Characteristics	General knowledge	SD	P value	Diet	SD	P value	Treatment	SD	P value	Complications	SD	P value
Gender			0.09			0.06			0.56			0.04
Male	43%	20.39		45.15%	23.51		25.47%	20.43		29.56%	19.25
Female	55.47%	10.47		61.11%	33.33		29.63%	20.03		43.75%	12.40
Race			0.03			0.26			0.28			0.08
Caucasian	47.34%	20.00		48.51%	24.57		27.44%	21.13		33.33%	20.81
Non-caucasian	37.5%	18.64		42.65%	25.02		22.73%	18.55		26.04%	14.63
Education			0.10			< 0.01			0.48			0.15
No college	39.54%	15.52		41.18%	19.35		26.26%	20.85		31.25%	15.70
College/post-graduate	48.75%	21.16		58.33%	19.17		30.56%	20.00		40%	25.04
IBD type			< 0.01			0.52			0.15			0.17
UC	39.49%	17.67		45.92%	22.45		20.92%	19.64		28.03%	18.89
CD	51.92%	19.88		45.35%	28.48		30.49%	20.38		35%	19.17
IBDU	31.25%	20.59		55.56%	16.67		20.37%	21.70		25%	23.57

CCKNOW: Crohn’s and Colitis Knowledge score; SD: Standard deviation; IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis; CD: Crohn’s disease; IBDU: Inflammatory bowel disease type unclassified.