Digestive tract reconstruction using isoperistaltic jejunum-later-cut overlap method after totally laparoscopic total gastrectomy for gastric cancer: Short-term outcomes and impact on quality of life

Table 6 Constituent items of pain of EORTC-QLQ-C30 and dysphagia of EORTC-QLQ-STO22 as compared between group T and group A

	Propensity-matched patients
	Group T (n = 44)	Group A (n = 89)	P value
Constituent items of pain of EORTC-QLQ-C30
Have you felt pain?			0.018
Not at all	28	66
A little	12	7
Quite a lot	3	14
Very much	1	2
Have your life affected by pain?			0.271
Not at all	39	73
A little	4	7
Quite a lot	1	9
Very much	0	0
Constituent items of dysphagia of EORTC-QLQ-STO22
Have you felt difficult to eat solid food?			0.039
Not at all	26	31
A little	11	32
Quite a lot	7	21
Very much	0	5
Have you felt difficult to eat liquid of soft food?			0.275
Not at all	38	67
A little	5	15
Quite a lot	1	7
Very much	0	0
Have you felt difficult to drink water?			0.194
Not at all	39	80
A little	5	5
Quite a lot	0	4
Very much	0	0