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To investigate the relationship between stressful life events and bowel symptoms in individuals with irritable bowel syndrome and those without bowel dysfunction.

June 1, 1992GutOpen Access

Effects of stressful life events on bowel symptoms: subjects with irritable bowel syndrome compared with subjects without bowel dysfunction.

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WWWilliam E. WhiteheadUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MCMichael D. CrowellMayo Clinic Hospital JRJ. C. RobinsonJohns Hopkins University

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Randomized trial examines bowel symptoms in subjects with and without irritable bowel syndrome, suggesting stress significantly impacts IBS individuals.

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To investigate the relationship between stressful life events and bowel symptoms in individuals with irritable bowel syndrome and those without bowel dysfunction.
Administered a standardized inventory of stressful life events and a bowel symptom questionnaire at three-month intervals for one year to 383 women.
Compared stress levels and bowel symptoms among subjects with irritable bowel syndrome, functional bowel disorder, and controls.
Controlled confounding effects of neuroticism using the NEO Personality Inventory.
Irritable bowel group reported significantly higher stress levels than the other groups, even after controlling for neuroticism.
Time lagged correlations revealed that stress correlated with bowel symptoms in subsequent intervals for all groups.
Irritable bowel syndrome subjects displayed a steeper regression slope relating stress to bowel symptoms at three and six months.

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Whitehead et al. (1992) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6bf33a78a09e5ab7b3bebb https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.33.6.825

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Randomized trial examines bowel symptoms in subjects with and without irritable bowel syndrome, suggesting stress significantly impacts IBS individuals.

Effects of stressful life events on bowel symptoms: subjects with irritable bowel syndrome compared with subjects without bowel dysfunction.

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Effects of stressful life events on bowel symptoms: subjects with irritable bowel syndrome compared with subjects without bowel dysfunction.

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