Transition clinic attendance is associated with improved beliefs and attitudes toward medicine in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Table 3 Beliefs about and attitudes toward medicine

	Transition	Control	P value
	n (%) ormean ± SD	n (%) ormean ± SD
Beliefs about medicine1
Specific
Necessity	17.2 ± 3.8	15.0 ± 4.0	0.00353
	3.4 ± 0.8	3.0 ± 0.8
Concern	16.1 ± 4.0	15.3 ± 3.5	0.29
	3.2 ± 0.8	3.1 ± 0.7
Differential	1.1 ± 4.7	-0.3 ± 4.7	0.11
	0.2 ± 0.9	-0.06 ± 0.9
General
Overuse	9.7 ± 2.5	9.4 ± 2.9	0.63
	3.2 ± 0.8	3.1 ± 1.0
Harm	14.9 ± 2.7	14.7 ± 2.8	0.70
	3.7 ± 0.7	3.7 ± 0.7
Attitudes toward medicine2
Accepting	10 (16.9)	12 (22.6)	0.45
Ambivalent	36 (61.0)	18 (34.0)	0.0043
Skeptical	4 (6.8)	11 (20.8)	0.033
Indifferent	9 (15.3)	12 (22.6)	0.32
Composite			0.023

¹Results presented in each subcategory were summative (top) and scaled (bottom). Differential was calculated by subtracting concerns score from necessity score;

²Four attitudinal groups were created after dichotomizing scaled necessity and concerns scores above or below midpoint (< 3 high or ≥ 3 low) giving: accepting (high necessity, low concerns), ambivalent (high necessity, high concerns), skeptical (low necessity, high concerns), and indifferent (low necessity, low concerns);

³Statistically significant.