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Perceived Stress in Patients with Common Gastrointestinal Disorders: Associations with Quality of Life, Symptoms and Disease Management.
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- Alexithymia and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
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- The role of arousal in maintaining the relationship between insomnia and gastrointestinal conditions.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2024Review
- The Role of the Mind-Body Connection in Children with Food Reactions and Identified Adversity: Implications for Integrating Stress Management and Resilience Strategies in Clinical Practice.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Coping-resilience profiles and experiences of stress in autistic adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- A Self-management SMS Text Messaging Intervention for People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Understanding Perceived Stress in Adolescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Yoga in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Narrative Review.Crohn's & colitis 360 · 2022Article
- Anxiety, depression and quality of life: a longitudinal study involving cancer patient-caregiver dyads.Health psychology report · 2022Article
- Influence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome on Stress and Depressive Symptoms in Nurses: The Korea Nurses' Health Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Psychological reaction to Covid-19 of Italian patients with IBD.BMC psychology · 2021Article
- Impact of Gastrointestinal Diseases on Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients in Pakistan.Cureus · 2021Article
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- Predictors of Health-related Quality of Life in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients Compared With Healthy Individuals.Journal of clinical gastroenterology · 2019Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of gastro-esophageal reflux disease among undergraduate medical students from a southern Indian medical school: a cross-sectional study.BMC research notes · 2018Article
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- The impact of depression, anxiety and stress on self-care in inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review.Annals of gastroenterologyReview
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methodsResearch supports relationships between stress and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and disorders. This pilot study assesses relationships between perceived stress, quality of life (QOL), and self-reported pain ratings as an indicator of symptom management in patients who self-reported gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
resultsIn the full sample (n = 402) perceived stress positively correlated with depression (r = 0.76, P < .0001), fatigue (r = 0.38, P < .0001), sleep disturbance (r = 0.40, P < .0001), average pain (r = 0.26, P < .0001), and worst pain (r = 0.25, P < .0001). Higher perceived stress also correlated with lower mental health-related QOL. Similar correlations were found for the participants with GERD (n = 188), IBS (n = 132), and IBD (n = 82). Finally, there were significant correlations in the GERD cohort between perceived stress, and average pain (r = 0.34, P < .0001) and worst pain (r = 0.29, P < .0001), and in the IBD cohort between perceived stress, and average pain (r = 0.32, P < .0001), and worst pain (r = 0.35, P < .01).
conclusionsPerceived stress broadly correlated with QOL characteristics in patients with GERD, IBS, and IBD, and their overall QOL was significantly lower than the general population. Perceived stress also appeared to be an indicator of symptom management (self-reported pain ratings) in GERD and IBD, but not IBS. While future research using objective measures of stress and symptom/disease management is needed to confirm these associations, as well as to evaluate the ability of stress reduction interventions to improve perceived stress, QOL and disease management in these GI disorders, integrative medicine treatment programs would be most beneficial to study.
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