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Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule
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OBJECTIVES: Psychosocial factors may drive people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to seek health care, but whether psychological factors are causally linked to IBS is controversial. One hypothesis is that IBS is a heterogeneous syndrome comprising two distinct conditions, one psychological and the other biological. However, it is unclear how many people with IBS in the community have little somatization and minimal psychosocial distress. The aim of our study was to estimate the proportion of people with IBS in a representative US community, who have low levels of somatic and psychological symptoms. METHODS: The cohort comprised subjects from three randomly selected population studies from Olmsted County, Minnesota. All of them filled out a validated gastrointestinal (GI) symptom questionnaire, the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R), and the Somatic Symptom Checklist (SSC) comprising 11 somatic complaint items. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate the associations between somatic symptoms/psychosocial factors and IBS, adjusting for age and gender. RESULTS: Of the 501 eligible subjects, 461 (92%) provided complete data (mean age=56 years, 49% female). IBS (Rome II criteria) was associated with both higher SSC and Global Severity Index (GSI of SCL-90-R) scores. Among subjects with high (75th percentile) SSC scores, 43% reported IBS vs. 10% of those with low (<25th percentile) SSC scores. Among those with high (60) GSI scores, 23% reported IBS vs. 6% with low (<40) GSI scores. Specifically, none of the IBS subjects had both low SSC and low GSI scores. CONCLUSIONS: Psychological factors and somatization are strongly associated with IBS in the community. However, IBS may not be related to low psychological distress and/or somatization.
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“Among subjects with high (>75th percentile) SSC scores, 40% reported IBS vs. 11% of those with low (<25th percentile) SSC scores.”
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“Although the overall SCL-90-R phobic anxiety scores for IBS and non-IBS subjects were identical (Table 2), there were modest associations between IBS status and phobic anxiety scores within age and gender subgroups (data not shown).”
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“Although the overall SCL-90-R phobic anxiety scores for IBS and non-IBS subjects were identical (Table 2), there were modest associations between IBS status and phobic anxiety scores within age and gender subgroups (data not shown).”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > RESULTS > Psychological distress in subjects with and without IBS
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“In addition, IBS status was significantly associated with each of the somatic items (except asthma, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, and weakness) adjusting for age and gender.”
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“The community subjects with greater somatization scores had greater odds for IBS (OR (odds ratio) 2.2 per unit, 95% CI: 1.2–3.8).”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > RESULTS > Predictors of IBS
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“Of the 461 subjects, 106 (23%, 95% CI (95% confidence interval): 19–27) met the Rome criteria for a diagnosis of IBS.”
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“Specifically, none of the IBS subjects had both low SSC and low GSI scores.”
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“Specifically, none of the 106 IBS subject had both a low SSC score and a low GSI score as defined above.”
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“Interestingly, we did not find any community subject with low psychological distress and somatic complaints scores to have IBS.”
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“Of the 11 somatic complaints, a higher score for 7 items (but not asthma, high blood pressure, and dizziness) was associated with greater odds for reporting IBS compared with the non-IBS group (Table 5).”
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“Logistic regression analysis indicated that all of the SCL-90-R subscales (except phobic anxiety) were significantly (P < 0.05) associated with IBS relative to non-IBS (adjusting for age, gender, educational level, marital status, smoking, alcohol use, and BMI, Table 5).”
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“These results are comparable with the findings in this study, in which the mean GSI score of community subjects with IBS was 54 (s.d. = 9).”
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“In particular, the separate frequency and severity of the overall mean scores were greater in subjects with IBS than in those without IBS (data not shown).”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > RESULTS > Psychological distress in subjects with and without IBS
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“However, a significant association between IBS status and physician visits for bowel problems in the last year was detected (adjusted for age and gender), with visits more common in subjects with IBS compared with those without IBS.”
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“Furthermore, in multiple linear regression models, adjusting for age, gender, and IBS status, the overall SSC score was most strongly correlated with the somatization subscale, with a partial r2 value of 31%, whereas, e.g., for the GSI score, the partial r2 of the SSC score was 17%.”
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“In the total study sample, a univariate analysis revealed that the SSC scores were positively correlated with somatization, depression, anxiety, and the GSI subscale of the SCL-90-R (all P < 0.05) (Table 6).”
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“No statistically significant associations between IBS status and age, marital status, smoking, alcohol, educational level, or BMI (body mass index) (Table 1) were detected.”
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“It is noted that, headaches, backaches, insomnia, fatigue, general stiffness, heart palpitations, and eye pain were all individually associated with IBS status in the general population on the basis of the Rome criteria.”
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“A significant association of IBS status with all subscale scores of the SCL-90-R was detected (adjusted for age and gender), with numerically greater mean scores observed in subjects with IBS (except for phobic anxiety, Table 2).”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > RESULTS > Psychological distress in subjects with and without IBS
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“Similarly, a significant association of IBS status with the overall SSC scores was detected (adjusted for age and gender) with greater scores observed in IBS subjects (Table 3).”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > RESULTS > Psychological distress in subjects with and without IBS
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“IBS (Rome II criteria) was associated with both higher SSC and Global Severity Index (GSI of SCL-90-R) scores.”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > Abstract > RESULTS
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“Among those with high (>60) GSI scores, 33% reported IBS vs. 8% with low (<40) GSI scores.”
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“The Talley BDQ has been shown to be a reliable and valid measure of GI symptoms (31).”
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“Our study also showed that the eight somatic complaint items were associated with IBS, raising the possibility that a subset with IBS in the community may not have a specific entity but are a part of a general syndrome of bodily distress.”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > DISCUSSION
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“Multiple linear regression models were used to assess the association of the SSC score with SCL-90-R scores adjusting for age, gender, and IBS status.”
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“For the somatization score, the choice of the 25th and 75th percentile cutoffs was somewhat arbitrary but intuitively reasonable, and was intended to give a sufficient number of subjects in each of the “cells”.”
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“To address the overall aim of this study, logistic regression models (to predict IBS, yes vs. no) were used to evaluate the associations between somatization/psychosocial factors and reporting symptoms consistent with IBS, adjusting for age and gender.”
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“The different analyses each focused on different hypotheses and thus, no adjustment for multiple tests was made.”
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“Fink et al. (49) showed that functional somatic symptoms could be grouped into three main symptom clusters, namely GI, CP (cardio-pulmonary), and MS (musculoskeletal). In addition, they found significantly inter-correlated correlation coefficients of 0.40–0.45 (Spearman’s rho) between a number of the symptoms from CP, GI, and MS symptom groups, and suggested that the three functional somatic synd”
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“Furthermore, in the systemic review, Whitehead et al. (20) reported that between a quarter and a third of patients with IBS meet the criteria for somatization disorder, which is much higher than in the normal population.”
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“In a recent population-based nested case–control study (17), psychosocial distress as measured by the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) was significantly associated with the presence of a functional GI disorder and was not explained by health-care utilization.”
§ Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule > INTRODUCTION
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“Psychological factors and somatization are strongly associated with IBS in the community.”
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“We conclude from this population-based study that psychological factors are strongly associated with IBS in the community; notably, somatization is significantly associated with IBS independent of age, gender, education level, marital status, smoking, alcohol use, and BMI.”
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“The definition of the normal range of SCL-90-R scores was based on commercially used cutoff definitions that are widely accepted (34,47).”
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“Whitehead et al. (40) reported that 48 of 51 symptom-based diagnoses were significantly more common in patients with IBS vs. that in controls, including headache, back pain, sleep disorder, muscle weakness, pelvic pain, and blurred vision.”
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“In contrast, more recent population studies (42–45) have suggested that the earlier volunteer non-population-based studies may have been biased, but this view is still controversial (16).”
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“Koloski et al. (19) reported that psychiatric diagnoses, neuroticism, more highly threatening life event stress, an external locus of control, and ineffectual coping styles were significantly associated with having a diagnosis of IBS and/or dyspepsia, and somatization was independently associated with IBS in a random population sample from Sydney, Australia.”
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“Sewitch et al. (47) studied the psychosocial distress in 200 patients with IBD from tertiary care settings. They showed that patients with IBD had higher levels of psychological distress than controls; the mean GSI score of patients with IBD was 57.1 (s.d. = 9.4).”
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“Other studies (21–23) have also observed an excess somatization tendency in outpatients with IBS.”
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“Sayuk et al. (46) reported that a higher burden of the current somatic symptoms was a strong predictor of a functional bowel disease in outpatients presenting with GI complaints.”
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“We have applied this definition in earlier studies and shown that it provides data similar to that of a physician interview (27,39).”
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“The Olmsted County, Minnesota, population comprises ~120,000 individuals, of which 89% are white; sociodemographically, this community resembles the US white population.”
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“The SCL-90-R is a measure of psychological state (34).”
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- Not checked yetcites [34] source
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“The American Gastroenterological Association technical review on IBS (16) reported that the prevalence of a psychiatric disorder ranges from 40 to more than 90% among patients with IBS referred to tertiary care centers, but argued that these studies overestimated the true prevalence of psychosocial disturbance in patients with IBS because psychological factors influence whether patients consult ph”
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- Not checked yetcites [16] source
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“Although the cause of the disorder remains essentially unknown, IBS is currently conceptualized as a bio-psychosocial disorder with disturbances of motor function, heightened visceral sensitivity, and possibly central nervous system disturbances (4–6).”
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“Early life experiences (e.g., abuse), adult stressors (e.g., divorce or bereavement), lack of social support, and other social learning experiences can affect both an individual’s physiological and psychological responses, and may precipitate abdominal distress, as well as psychiatric disorders (4,7–11).”
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- Not checked yetcites [4] source
- Not checked yetcites [7] Talley NJ, 1995, Am J Gastroenterol
- Not checked yetcites [8] Delvaux M, 1997, Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol source
- Not checked yetcites [9] Ali A, 2000, Psychosom Med source
- Not checked yetcites [10] source
- Not checked yetcites [11] Bennett EJ, 1998, Gut source
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“Several studies carried out in volunteers (12,13,41) reported that persons with IBS, who do not see physicians, are psychologically similar to those without bowel complaints.”
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There is little community data on the relationship between IBS and somatization or psychosocial distress.
“In addition, few data regarding the association between IBS and somatization and/or psychosocial distress exist in the community.”
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The extent of psychological distress among community IBS sufferers is unclear because prior studies have not documented how many are entirely free of psychological comorbidity.
“However, the burden of psychological distress in IBS remains unclear in the community, as studies have failed to document how many IBS sufferers are totally free of psychological comorbidity.”
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IBS proportion in high SSC group differs across sections
MajorThe abstract reports 43% IBS prevalence among subjects with high SSC scores, while the Results section later reports 40% for the same high SSC comparison. These are different values for the same subgroup comparison and are not explained as due to a different denominator or rounding.
“Among subjects with high (>75th percentile) SSC scores, 43% reported IBS vs. 10% of those with low (<25th percentile) SSC scores.”
“Among subjects with high (>75th percentile) SSC scores, 40% reported IBS vs. 11% of those with low (<25th percentile) SSC scores.”
IBS proportion in high GSI group differs across sections
MajorThe abstract reports 23% IBS among subjects with high GSI scores, while the later Results section reports 33% for the same high-GSI comparison. These values conflict and cannot both describe the same subgroup result.
“Among those with high (>60) GSI scores, 23% reported IBS vs. 6% with low (<40) GSI scores.”
“Among those with high (>60) GSI scores, 33% reported IBS vs. 8% with low (<40) GSI scores.”
Female proportion differs between abstract and results
MinorFor the same 461 subjects, the abstract reports 49% female and the Results section reports 48%.
“461 (92%) provided complete data (mean age = 56 years, 49% female).”
“Of the 461 subjects pooled for this study, 48% were female and the mean (± s.d.) age was 56 years (± 22).”
Number of associated somatic complaints changes from seven to eight
MinorThe Predictors of IBS section says seven complaints were associated with IBS, while the Discussion says eight were. The predictors statement also names only three exceptions among 11 complaints, leaving eight rather than seven.
“Of the 11 somatic complaints, a higher score for 7 items (but not asthma, high blood pressure, and dizziness) was associated with greater odds for reporting IBS compared with the non-IBS group (Table 5).”
“Our study also showed that the eight somatic complaint items were associated with IBS, raising the possibility that a subset with IBS in the community may not have a specific entity but are a part of a general syndrome of bodily distress.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Choung, R. S., Locke, G. R., Zinsmeister, A. R., Schleck, C. D., & Talley, N. J.
- Affiliations
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- Corresponding author
- Talley, Nicholas J
- Venue
- The American Journal of Gastroenterology
- Published
- 2009-06-02
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1772-1779
- ISSN
- 0002-9270 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-0241
- PMC
- PMC3772628
- OpenAlex
- W2084613607
- Semantic Scholar
- 6d7a40f1028191d0e3d61e87054f6ff37ff6baaa
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 13.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- The American Journal of Gastroenterology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR030582, R01AR30582)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Gastroenterology › Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Keywords
- irritable bowel syndrome, psychosocial distress, somatic symptoms, somatization, psychological factors, community population, SCL-90-R, Rome II criteria, gastrointestinal symptoms
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Middle Aged, Probability, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reference Values, Severity of Illness Index, Somatoform Disorders, Stress, Psychological, Incidence, Case-Control Studies, Age Distribution, Sex Distribution, Sickness Impact Profile, Risk Assessment, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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