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Table 4 Quality of life between diversion group and conservative group in CRP patients by EORTC QLQ-C30 scale

QLQ-C30 scale	Ref. (Normal German population)	Diverting colostomy group (n = 18), mean (SD)				Conservative treatment group (n = 23), mean (SD)
		Pre-treatment	Follow-up	Δ(FU)-Pre1	Significance2	Pre-treatment	Follow-up	Δ(FU)-Pre	Significance2
Global health	63.2	23.1 (15.1)	64.8 (13.8)	41.7	< 0.001	47.1 (21.5)	62.3 (25.0)	15.2	0.033
Physical function	82.6	50.7 (17.8)	77.8 (16.6)	27.1	< 0.001	78.0 (22.7)	78.6 (26.1)	0.6	0.856
Role function	75.0	34.3 (23.9)	75.9 (27.3)	41.6	< 0.001	77.5 (24.9)	77.5 (29.1)	0.0	0.775
Emotional function	62.2	46.3 (27.4)	73.6 (27.0)	27.3	0.001	75.7 (17.6)	80.8 (23.8)	5.1	0.384
Cognition function	81.3	92.6 (12.7)	93.5 (9.8)	0.9	0.581	94.2 (15.6)	95.7 (9.0)	1.5	0.798
Social function	78.4	43.5 (28.9)	65.7 (31.7)	22.2	0.004	91.3 (20.6)	89.1 (21.1)	-2.2	0.916
Fatigue	34.1	72.8 (12.9)	36.4 (25.9)	-36.4	< 0.001	26.6 (24.1)	23.2 (27.2)	-3.4	0.695
Nausea/vomiting	5.7	4.6 (15.5)	1.9 (7.6)	-2.7	0.109	5.1 (15.4)	6.5 (16.5)	1.4	0.655
Pain	33.1	44.4 (28.3)	14.8 (22.8)	-29.6	0.001	14.5 (21.5)	11.6 (18.4)	-2.9	0.481
Dyspnea	18.8	42.6 (31.0)	18.5 (22.8)	-24.1	0.003	14.5 (19.7)	8.7 (18.0)	-5.8	0.210
Insomnia	38.5	48.1 (35.5)	29.6 (31.2)	-18.5	0.026	21.7 (21.6)	26.1 (31.7)	4.4	0.287
Appetite loss	9.4	22.2 (27.2)	13.0 (19.7)	-9.2	0.125	10.1 (25.5)	8.7 (18.0)	-1.4	0.785
Constipation	9.1	9.3 (14.9)	3.7 (10.5)	-5.6	0.066	8.7 (20.6)	7.2 (22.4)	-1.5	0.414
Diarrhea	9.2	33.3 (33.3)	22.2 (24.8)	-11.1	0.018	11.6 (23.8)	2.9 (9.6)	-8.7	0.078
Financial difficulties	17.1	59.3 (26.2)	50.0 (31.9)	-9.3	0.211	26.1 (31.7)	24.6 (30.5)	-1.5	0.595

¹Wilcoxon rank-sum test;

²Point (follow-up) - point (pre-treatment).