Observational studyClinical and translational gastroenterology2020
Patient-Specific Stress-Abdominal Pain Interaction in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: An Exploratory Experience Sampling Method Study.
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- The Association Between Personality Traits and Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Insights From an Exploratory Cohort Study.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2026Observational
- Beyond Chronic Stress: Daily Stress Is Associated With Symptoms in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026Article
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- Lead yourself to the zone and be happy: The effect of self-leadership development on flow and happiness.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effect of Tryptophan Restriction in the Therapy of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: a Systematic Review.International journal of general medicine · 2024Review
- Symptom tracking in endometriosis using digital technologies: Knowns, unknowns, and future prospects.Cell reports. Medicine · 2023Review
- Real-time Symptom Assessment in Patients With Endometriosis: Psychometric Evaluation of an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measure, Based on the Experience Sampling Method.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- The Incidence of Post-infectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Anxiety, and Depression in Iranian Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Mechanism of dexmedetomidine preconditioning on spinal cord analgesia in rats with functional chronic visceral pain.Acta cirurgica brasileira · 2022Article
- Psychometric evaluation of an experience sampling method-based patient-reported outcome measure in functional dyspepsia.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionGastrointestinal symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have been correlated with psychological factors using retrospective symptom assessment. However, real-time symptom assessment might reveal the interplay between abdominal and affective symptoms more reliably in a longitudinal perspective. The aim was to evaluate the association between stress and abdominal pain, using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) as a real-time, repeated measurement method.
methodsThirty-seven patients with IBS (26 women; mean age 36.7 years) and 36 healthy controls (HC; 24 women; mean age 31.1 years) completed an electronic ESM during 7 consecutive days. Abdominal pain and stress were scored on an 11-point Numeric Rating Scale at a maximum of 10 random moments each day.
resultsAbdominal pain scores were 2.21 points higher in patients with IBS compared with those in HC (P < 0.001), whereas stress levels did not differ significantly (B: 0.250, P = 0.406). In IBS, a 1-point increase in stress was associated with, on average, 0.10 points increase in abdominal pain (P = 0.017). In HC, this was only 0.02 (P = 0.002). Stress levels at t = -1 were not a significant predictor for abdominal pain at t = 0 in both groups, and vice versa. DISCUSSION: Our results demonstrate a positive association between real-time stress and abdominal pain scores and indicate a difference in response to stress and not a difference in experienced stress per se. Furthermore, an in-the-moment rather than a longitudinal association is suggested. This study underlines the importance of considering the individual flow of daily life and supports the use of real-time measurement when interpreting potential influencers of abdominal symptoms in IBS.
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