Body awareness therapy: A new strategy for relief of symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome patients

Table 5 SCL90 score from 21 apparently healthy controls and 21 IBS patients at 0, 12 and 24 wk of treatment and 6 mo after end of treatment

Category	Before treatment		After 12 wk		After 24 wk		6 mo after end of treatment
	M	Md (IQR)	M	Md (IQR)	M	Md (IQR)	M	Md (IQR)
AHC
Totally	0.3	0 (0)d
Obsessive-compulsive	0.4	0 (1)d
Sensitivity	0.3	0 (0)d
Depression	0.4	0 (1)d
Anxiety	0.4	0 (0)d
Hostility	0.2	0 (0)d
Phobic anxiety	0.01	0 (0)d
Paranoid ideation	0.2	0 (0)d
Psychotisism	0.1	0 (0)d
Somatisation	0.2	0 (0)d
Others	0.4	0 (1)d
IBS patients
Totally	1.0	0 (2)	0.9	0 (1)d	0.6	0 (1)d	0.7	0 (1)d
Obsessive-compulsive	1.3	1 (2)	1.1	1 (2)b	0.8	0 (1)d	0.9	0 (1)d
Sensitivity	0.9	1 (1)	0.6	0 (1)d	0.4	0 (1)d	0.5	0 (1)d
Depression	1.3	1 (2)	1.2	1 (2)	0.8	0 (1)d	0.9	1 (2)d
Anxiety	0.9	1 (2)	1.0	0 (2)	0.8	0 (1)a	0.8	0 (1)b
Hostility	0.5	0 (1)	0.3	0 (0)b	0.3	0 (0)d	0.3	0 (0)b
Phobic anxiety	0.2	0 (0)	0.2	0 (0)	0.2	0 (0)a	0.2	0 (0)
Paranoid ideation	0.8	0 (1)	0.5	0 (1)d	0.4	0 (1)d	0.3	0 (1)d
Psychotisism	0.4	0 (1)	0.3	0 (0)a	0.2	0 (0)d	0.2	0 (0)b
Somatisation	1.7	2 (3)	1.5	1 (3)a	1.2	1 (2)d	1.3	1 (2)d
Other	1.2	1 (2)	1.2	1 (2)	0.9	0 (1)d	0.9	0 (2)b

The result is shown totally and as items categorised. The higher score the more symptoms. M denotes mean, MD: median; IQR: inter quartile range; AHC: apparently healthy controls.

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01,

^dP < 0.001 vs IBS patients at 0 wk.