Effect of psychological nursing intervention on anxiety level and quality of life in patients with gastrointestinal peptic ulcer

Table 1 General patient information

Feature	Experimental group, n = 60	Control group, n = 60	P value
Age in years	45.8 ± 8.2	46.5 ± 7.6	0.532
Sex as male/female	32/28	30/30	0.751
Marital status as married/single	44/16	42/18	0.614
Education level for college and above	22	20	0.489
Occupation as white collar/blue collar/other	28/20/12	29/19/12	0.825
Disease duration in months	18.5 (12.0-24.0)	19.0 (11.5-23.5)	0.691
Pain intensity by VAS score	6.2 ± 1.5	6.0 ± 1.6	0.418
Digestive symptom severity by VAS score	5.8 ± 1.2	6.1 ± 1.3	0.287

Data are n, mean ± standard deviation, or mean (interquartile range). VAS: Visual analogue scale.