OBJECTIVE To address the role of anxiety and depression symptoms in altered pain processing in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). DESIGN In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response to rectal distensions delivered at previously determined individual discomfort thresholds was assessed. PATIENTS 15 female patients with irritable bowel synd...

BACKGROUND: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional-digestive disorder in health personnel, with significant repercussions on life quality, work, healthcare system and society. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency reported IBS its subtypes nursing staffs' medical records public hospital, Cuenca - Ecuador. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional, descriptive study, randomize...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have suggested that 54%-100% of patients with IBS may have associated psychiatric illness and personality pathology. This transversal controlled study was realized in order to evaluate anxiety and depression levels, as well as the personality characteristics of patients with IBS and to compare the results obtained with patients with episodes of depression and healthy...

Background/Aims Both sexual and physical abuse history have been reported to be associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in Western countries. The impact of abuse history in IBS patients in Asia remains unclear. We aim to determine the prevalence of abuse history, its associated psychological profiles, and sleep problems among IBS patients in Taiwan. Methods In total, 194 Rome III-defin...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QOL) is an important measure in the management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Controversy exists in the findings of studies evaluating QOL in IBS subtypes, and little is known about this issue in Iranian patients. Determination of the factors affecting QOL in IBS patients may influence treatment outcomes. The aims of this study are to: 1) compare QOL between subt...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to review and compare, with meta-analytic methods, observational studies on the association of medically unexplained physical symptoms, anxiety, and depression with special emphasis on healthy and organically ill control groups and on different types of symptoms, measures, and illness behavior. METHODS A search of MEDLINE and PsycLIT/PsycINFO for abstracts from 198...

Background The gastrointestinal microbiota has emerged as a key regulator of gut-brain axis signalling with important implications for neurogastroenterology. There is continuous bidirectional communication between the gut and brain facilitated by neuronal, endocrine, metabolic, immune pathways. influences these pathways via several mechanisms. Studies have shown compositional functional alterat...

In this issue of JMCP, Faresjö and colleagues found that 13.3% of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) reported using antidepressants versus 4.5% of control patients without IBS.1 The more than 3-fold higher use of antidepressants (odds ratio [OR] = 3.27, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.27-4.70) among patients with IBS is not a surprising finding, but the actual use of drugs by IBS pat...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a dise ase or functional gastrointestinal disorder, which appears to be associated with mental disorders, including anxiety. ibs seems to be involved in the creation and prevalence of anxiety, which varies in different societies. the purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of anxiety and its relationship with ibs among students of payam...