ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2018
Alexithymia and Psychopathology in Patients Suffering From Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Arising Differences and Correlations to Tailoring Therapeutic Strategies.
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- Silent Struggles Within: Alexithymia Unveiled in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of neurogastroenterology and motility · 2024Pooled it
- Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Alexithymia and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Internet Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy for Adults With Chronic Medical Conditions: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
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- Emotional Disturbances and Crohn's Disease.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2025Review
- Nutritional psychology and inflammatory bowel disease: a narrative review of gut-brain axis interactions.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Risk Factors for the Development of Eating Disorders in Adolescents with Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Four-year follow-up of psychiatric and psychosomatic profile in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Switching withinTherapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Psychological impairment in inflammatory bowel diseases: the key role of coping and defense mechanisms.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2023Article
- Psychological stress in inflammatory bowel disease: Psychoneuroimmunological insights into bidirectional gut-brain communications.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
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- P2Y12 receptor as a new target for electroacupuncture relieving comorbidity of visceral pain and depression of inflammatory bowel disease.Chinese medicine · 2021Article
- Alexithymia in ankylosing spondylitis.Turkish journal of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Unmet Psychosocial Needs of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Ulcerative Colitis: Results from the Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study in Korea.Gut and liver · 2020Article
- Alexithymic characteristics and interoceptive abilities are associated with disease severity and levels of C-reactive protein and cytokines in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.Annals of gastroenterologyArticle
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Abstract
Comorbidity with anxiety or depression is common in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) as Crohn Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Data suggest that the cognitive construct of alexithymia has high prevalence in people suffering from anxiety and mood disorders and even in people with IBD. Most studies have investigated mainly anxiety and depression, considering IBD population as a homogeneous group of patients. Little evidence shows the impact of alexithymia on the course of IBD. We evaluated a broad spectrum of psychopathological symptoms and alexithymia levels in a group of outpatients affected by IBD in clinical remission, comparing CD and UC and investigating the relationship with clinical and socio-demographic variables. One hundred and seventy IBD outpatients were screened by using the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS), the Self-report Symptom Inventory-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). A high prevalence of anxious and depressive symptoms (42.35 and 25.8% respectively) together with alexithymia (31.76%) was confirmed. CD patients experienced high levels of depression (HADS Depression 35.2%
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