Irritable bowel syndrome subtypes differ in body awareness, psychological symptoms and biochemical stress markers

Table 4 Sense of coherence (SOC)

Category	AHC (n = 21)		D-IBS (n = 30)		C-IBS (n = 16)		A-IBS (n = 34)
	M	Md (IQR)	M	Md (IQR)	M	Md (IQR)	M	Md (IQR)
Total	4.2	4 (2)	3.8	4 (3)b	3.1	3 (3)cf	3.4	4 (3)cfh
Comprehensibility	3.7	4 (2)	3.3	3 (3)	2.5	3 (3)cf	3.1	3 (3)ci
Manageability	4.4	5 (3)	4.0	4 (3)	3.3	3.5 (3)cf	3.6	4 (3)ch
Meaningfulness	4.6	5 (1)	4.2	5 (3)	3.8	4 (2)cd	3.7	4 (2)cf
Present time	4.5	5 (1)	4.0	5 (3)a	3.3	3 (3)cf	3.5	4 (3)cf
External conditions	4.1	4 (2)	3.7	4 (3)a	2.9	3 (4)cf	3.4	3 (3)ch

Sense of coherence score from the AHC group and C-IBS, D-IBS and A-IBS patients. The results are shown in total and as items categorised. The higher score, the better SOC.

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01,

^cP < 0.001 vs AHC;

^dP < 0.05,

^fP < 0.001 vs D-IBS;

^hP < 0.01,

ⁱP < 0.001, C-IBS vs A-IBS. M:Mean; Md: Median; IQR: Inter quartile range.