133 6 Better Stoma Care using the Stoma App – does it help? Table 1: Baseline characteristics of study population Variable Intervention (n=96) Control (n=112) P-value Male Gender 54 (56.3%) 53 (47.3%) 0.213 Age 56.0 (13.4) 56.7 (14.8) 0.716 BMI 25.7 (4.5) 26.0 (4.7) 0.596 Karnofsky performance score 87.0 (9.2) 89.6 (9.4) 0.041 ASA 0.265 1 7 (7.4%) 17 (16.0%) 2 67 (71.3%) 70 (66.0%) 3 19 (20.2%) 17 (16.0%) 4 1 (1.1%) 2 (1.9%) Patient history 0.377 No patient history 23 (24.0%) 20 (17.9%) Minimal patient history 26 (27.1%) 39 (34.8%) Extensive patient history 47 (49.0%) 53 (47.3%) Indication 0.578 Benign 46 (47.9%) 59 (52.7%) Malignant 50 (52.1%) 53 (47.3%) Setting 0.506 Elective expected ostomy 57 (59.4%) 60 (53.6%) Elective unexpected ostomy 5 (5.2%) 10 (8.9%) Emergency 34 (35.4%) 42 (37.5%) Type of ostomy 0.258 Colostomy 53 (55.2%) 71 (63.4%) Ileostomy 43 (44.8%) 41 (36.6%) Hospital 1.000 Academic 26 (27.1%) 30 (26.8%) Teaching 70 (72.9%) 82 (73.2%) Days to operation Elective -21.1 (42.8) -21.1 (43.8) 1.000 Emergency 4.8 (9.6) 2.7 (4.7) 0.227 Mobile proficiency* 68.4 (54.8-70.0) 65.4 (53.8-70.0) 0.219 General QoL Physical QoL 65.3 (20.6) 64.7 (24.0) 0.839 Psychological QoL 71.9 (14.7) 72.3 (14.0) 0.838 Social relationships * 83.3 (75.0-100) 83.3 (72.9-100) 0.404 Environment QoL 79.1 (13.5) 79.7 (14.7) 0.768 Disability score* 19.5 (15.0–27.5) 21.0 (15.0–30.3) 0.658 * Data presented as median (IQR).
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