Psychosocial background and intervention in the irritable bowel syndrome

Digestion

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 175-186

  Stockbrugger R ^h   Coremans, G ^a   Creed, F ^b   Dapoigny, M ^c   Muller Lissner S A ^d   Pace, F ^e   Smout, A ^f   Whorwell, P J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^d Gastroenterologie Diabetologie und Allgemeine Innere Medizin   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioral therapy; Depression; Hypnotherapy; Irritable bowel syndrome, epidemiology; Psychotherapy; Sociocultural factors

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXAPINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATROPINE; DESIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; IMIPRAMINE; PAROXETINE; PROTRIPTYLINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; THIORIDAZINE; TRAZODONE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INTESTINE MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0344528007     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000007644     Document Type: Review

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