Prevalence of sexual and physical abuse and its relationship with symptom manifestations in patients with chronic organic and functional gastrointestinal disorders

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 256-261

  Baccini, F ^a   Pallotta, N ^a   Calabrese, E ^a   Pezzotti, P ^b   Corazziari, Enrico ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b National Health Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic gastrointestinal disorders; Functional gastrointestinal disorders; Physical abuse; Sexual abuse; Somatization disorder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENDER; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOMATIZATION; VIOLENCE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL CRIME; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX OFFENSES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0042308428     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(03)00075-6     Document Type: Article

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