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Table 3 Association between pre-HT anxiety and depression score and pre-HT mood color choice

From: Mood color choice helps to predict response to hypnotherapy in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

  

95% confidence interval

 

Mood color (n = 82)

Mean score

Lower limit

Upper limit

p value

Anxiety

    

Positive (n = 13)

10.31

8.52

12.09

ANOVA:

f (2,79) = 3.476; p = 0.036

Neutral (n = 31)

11.23

9.64

12.81

 

Negative (n = 38)

13.45

11.86

15.04

 

Depression

    

Positive (n = 13)

4.62

2.83

6.40

ANOVA:

f (2,79) = 12.287; p < 0.001

Neutral (n = 31)

5.87

4.82

6.92

 

Negative (n = 38)

9.13

7.85

10.41

 
  1. Out of a total of 156 patients, one patient failed to complete the HAD questionnaire satisfactorily and had to be omitted from the analysis and 73 patients chose no color at all.