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Table. 3.

Correlations Between Coping Styles and Disease Specific Health Related Quality of Life in Male Eosinophilic Esophagitis Patients

Coping strategies (UCL)
N = 89		 Disease specific quality of life (EoE-HRQOL-A)
Eating/diet impact Social impact Emotional impact Disease anxiety Swallowing anxiety
r P-valuea r P-valuea r P-valuea r P-valuea r P-valuea
Active problem solving 0.086 0.421 0.084 0.434 0.056 0.605 –0.043 0.689 0.200 0.060
Palliative reaction –0.376 < 0.001b –0.262 < 0.01c –0.455 < 0.001b –0.451 < 0.001b –0.332 < 0.001b
Avoidance and passive expectancy –0.117 0.275 –0.221 0.037 –0.148 0.167 –0.133 0.214 –0.152 0.155
Seeking social support –0.026 0.806 0.023 0.832 –0.071 0.509 –0.102 0.341 0.000 1.000
Passive reaction –0.468 < 0.001b –0.264 < 0.01c –0.355 < 0.001b –0.372 < 0.001b –0.464 < 0.001b
Expression of emotion and anger –0.182 0.087 –0.126 0.239 –0.184 0.085 –0.188 0.078 –0.213 0.045
Reassuring thoughts –0.089 0.407 –0.097 0.365 –0.216 0.042 –0.254 0.016 –0.130 0.223

aP-value correlation between Utrecht Coping List (UCL) domains and adult eosinophilic esophagitis health-related quality of life questionnaire (EoE-HRQOL-A) domains (Pearson’s or Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients, as appropriate).

bP-value < 0.001.

cP-value of < 0.01, indicating a significant outcome.
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