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Effects of stressful life events on bowel symptoms: subjects with irritable bowel syndrome compared with subjects without bowel dysfunction.
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A standardised inventory of stressful life events and a bowel symptom questionnaire were administered at three month intervals for one year to 383 women who were unselected with respect to bowel symptoms. A NEO Personality Inventory was given initially to assess neuroticism. Subjects who satisfied restrictive diagnostic criteria for irritable bowel syndrome were compared with those who complained of abdominal pain plus altered bowel habits but who did not meet restrictive diagnostic criteria (functional bowel disorder) and with controls without bowel dysfunction. The irritable bowel group showed significantly higher levels of stress than the other two groups even when the confounding effects of neuroticism were statistically controlled for. Time lagged correlations showed that stress in one three month interval was significantly correlated with bowel symptoms in the subsequent three month interval for all groups. The slope of the regression line relating stress to bowel symptoms was significantly steeper for the irritable bowel group than for the other two groups at three and six months, suggesting that subjects with irritable bowel syndrome show a greater reactivity to stress. Stress scores were also significantly correlated with the number of disability days and the number of medical clinic visits for bowel symptoms.
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- Authors
- Whitehead, W. E., Crowell, M. D., Robinson, J. C., Heller, B. R., & Schuster, M. M.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Venue
- Gut
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 1992-06
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 825-830
- ISSN
- 0017-5749 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-3288
- PMC
- PMC1379344
- OpenAlex
- W2091075637
- Cited by
- 432
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Gut (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (2k05mh000133-17, 5r01nr001369-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (KO5 MH00133)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (R01 NR01369)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Gastroenterology › Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
- Keywords
- irritable bowel syndrome, life events, bowel symptoms, functional bowel disorders, stress reactivity, neuroticism, abdominal pain, altered bowel habits, disability days, women
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Colonic Diseases, Functional, Constipation, Diarrhea, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Neurotic Disorders, Personality Inventory, Prospective Studies, Stress, Psychological
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