Comparisons among mothers of the Healthy, FA and Indecisive symptoms for FA groups
Psychosocial functioning of the mothers was evaluated by SCL90R, BDI, BAI and Bonding.
Most of the scores for psychosomatic symptoms that were evaluated by SCL-90R namely anxiety (p=0.008), anger (p=0.042), depression (p<0.001), interpersonal sensitivity (p=0.001), obsession (p=0.002), phobia (p=0.008), somatization (p=0.002) and general symptom index (GSI) (p=0.001); scores for BDI (p=<0.001), BAI (p=0.008) and Bonding [attachment (p=0.001), anger (p=0.019) and total (p=0.036)] were higher in the FA group than the healthy controls. The mothers in the Indecisive symptoms for FA had also higher scores for SCL-90R [anxiety (p=0.034), anger (p=0.045), depression (p=0.005), obsession (p=0.009), phobia (p=0.024), somatization (p=0.029) and GSI (p=0.037)], BAI (p=0.031), Bonding [anger (p=0.003)] than the healthy controls. The FA and Indecisive FA groups did not differ from one another in any of the psychosocial functioning scores (p>0.05 for all scores) (Table 5).
Cases with FA group were categorized into IgE- and Non-IgE-mediated FA. We compared the healthy controls with the IgE- / Non-IgE-mediated and Indecisive symptoms for FA groups. The SCL-90R [anxiety (p=0.02), anger (p=0.005), depression (p=0.003), interpersonal sensitivity (p= 0.010), obsession (p<0.001), phobia (p=0.03), somatization (p=0.001), GSI (p=0.001)], BDI (p=0.001), BAI (p= 0.007) and Bonding [attachment (p= 0.006) and anger (p= 0.001)] scores were higher in Indecisive symptoms for FA than Non-IgE FA, and the scores of Non-IgE FA were higher than those of IgE-mediated FA (scores of Indecisive symptoms for FA > Non-IgE FA > IgE FA, p for trend is significant for each mentioned score) (Table 6).