Type, Rather Than Number, of Mental and Physical Comorbidities Increases the Severity of Symptoms in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1147-1157

  Lackner, Jeffrey M ^a   Ma, Chang Xing ^b   Keefer, Laurie ^c   Brenner, Darren M ^c   Gudleski, Gregory D ^a   Satchidanand, Nikhil ^a   Firth, Rebecca ^a   Sitrin, Michael D ^a   Katz, Leonard ^a   Krasner, Susan S ^a   Ballou, Sarah K ^c   Naliboff, Bruce D ^d   Mayer, Emeran A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b School of Public Health and Health Professions University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Disease; Comorbidity; Health Related Quality of Life; Mental Functioning; Stress; Transdiagnostic

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY IMAGE; CHECKLIST; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SHORT FORM 12; SYMPTOM; TENSION HEADACHE; WELLBEING;

12-ITEM SHORT FORM; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; BSI; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DSM; GAD; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GERD; GI; GLOBAL SEVERITY INDEX; GSI; HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE; HRQOL; IBS; IBS-SSS; IBSOS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME OUTCOME STUDY; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME SYMPTOM SEVERITY SCALE; LBP; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR DEPRESSION DISORDER; MCS; MDD; MENTAL FUNCTIONING; MINI; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH; NIH; PCS; QOL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SF-12; SF-12 MENTAL COMPONENT SCORE; SF-12 PHYSICAL COMPONENT SCORE; STRESS; TRANSDIAGNOSTIC;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882844441     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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