Psychosocial factors are associated with health care seeking rather than diagnosis in irritable bowel syndrome

Gastroenterology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 293-301

  Smith, Robert C ^a   Greenbaum, David S ^a   Vancouver, Jeffery B ^a   Henry, Rebecca C ^a   Reinhart, Mary Ann ^a   Greenbaum, Ruth B ^a   Dean, Howard A ^a   Mayle, James E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; PSYCHOSOMATICS; STRESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SICK ROLE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025055512     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(90)90817-K     Document Type: Article

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