Is health care seeking for irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia a socially learned response to illness?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 153-162

  Koloski, Natasha A ^a   Boyce, Philip M ^c   Talley, Nicholas J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional dyspepsia; Health care seeking; Illness behavior; Irritable bowel syndrome; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL LEARNING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 14544307896     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-005-1294-9     Document Type: Article

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