PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME

Psychological aspects of Irritable Bowel Syndrome have been well investigated in Western countries, but there is a paucity of Indian studies focusing on this area. A series of fifty patients with the Irritable Bowel Syndrome were studied with respect to their depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms an...

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Autores principales: Rajagopalan, Mani, Kurian, George, John, Jacob K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1996
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2970874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584134
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description Psychological aspects of Irritable Bowel Syndrome have been well investigated in Western countries, but there is a paucity of Indian studies focusing on this area. A series of fifty patients with the Irritable Bowel Syndrome were studied with respect to their depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and their personality traits. Patients had a mean score of 14.68 on Hamilton's depression rating scale and 11.22 on Hamilton's anxiety rating scale, and were more introverted and more neurotic than the general population. No association was found between psychological symptoms and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms. These findings suggest that psychological symptoms are a concomitant part of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-29708742011-05-16 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME Rajagopalan, Mani Kurian, George John, Jacob K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Psychological aspects of Irritable Bowel Syndrome have been well investigated in Western countries, but there is a paucity of Indian studies focusing on this area. A series of fifty patients with the Irritable Bowel Syndrome were studied with respect to their depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and their personality traits. Patients had a mean score of 14.68 on Hamilton's depression rating scale and 11.22 on Hamilton's anxiety rating scale, and were more introverted and more neurotic than the general population. No association was found between psychological symptoms and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms. These findings suggest that psychological symptoms are a concomitant part of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Medknow Publications 1996 /pmc/articles/PMC2970874/ /pubmed/21584134 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rajagopalan, Mani
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PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
title PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
title_full PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
title_fullStr PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
title_full_unstemmed PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
title_short PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
title_sort psychological aspects of irritable bowel syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2970874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584134
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