The role of stress in symptom exacerbation among IBS patients

Over 200 treatment-seeking irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients completed 4 weeks of daily prospective measures of stress and gastrointestinal symptoms as well as retrospective measures of stress (life events over 12 months, hassles over 1 month). We also obtained the stress measures on 66 nonill...

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Published in:	Journal of psychosomatic research Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 119 - 128
Main Authors:	Blanchard, Edward B., Lackner, Jeffrey M., Jaccard, James, Rowell, Dianna, Carosella, Ann Marie, Powell, Catherine, Sanders, Kathryn, Krasner, Susan, Kuhn, Eric
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.02.2008 New York, NY Elsevier
Subjects:	Biological and medical sciences Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen Humans Illness and personality Illness, stress and coping Irritable bowel syndrome Irritable Bowel Syndrome - diagnosis Irritable Bowel Syndrome - epidemiology Irritable Bowel Syndrome - physiopathology Life Change Events Life events Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Other diseases. Semiology Prospective Studies Psychiatric/Mental Health Psychology and medicine Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Retrospective Studies Severity of Illness Index Stomach. Duodenum. Small intestine. Colon. Rectum. Anus Stress Stress and irritable bowel syndrome Stress, Psychological - epidemiology Stress, Psychological - psychology Surveys and Questionnaires Symptoms Stress Stress and irritable bowel syndrome Irritable bowel syndrome Human Symptomatology Life events Follow up study Digestive diseases Intestinal disease Severity score Comparative study
ISSN:	0022-3999, 1879-1360
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