Relationships between pathologic subjective halitosis, olfactory reference syndrome, and social anxiety in young Japanese women

Table 1 Characteristics of PSH ^a, ORS ^b and SA ^c and incidence of preoccupation with odors of body parts

	Median (25^th percentile, 75^th percentile, range)	α coefficient ^d
Pathologic subjective halitosis ^e	13 (12, 16; 10–38)	0.81
Olfactory reference syndrome ^e	14 (10, 19; 7–35)	0.89
Social anxiety ^e	18 (14, 23; 7–35)	0.89
	N (%)
Preoccupation with odors of body parts ^f (N = 1,360)
Body odor	738 (54.3)
Mouth odor	736 (54.1)
Armpit odor	543 (39.9)
Foot odor	428 (31.5)

^a Pathologic subjective halitosis
^b Olfactory reference syndrome
^c Social anxiety
^d Cronbach’s alpha coefficient
^e Complete data for PSH, ORS, and SA were available for 1,340, 1,346 and 1,350 subjects, respectively
^f Participants were able to choose all the options, i.e., body, mouth, armpit, and foot odors

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