Mapping network connection and direction among symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with chronic gastritis.

ABSTRACT: Regarding neurophysiological and developmental findings, anxiety and depression are usual comorbidities of gastritis patients. However, research related to anxiety and depression among chronic gastritis patients was conducted on the disease level while ignoring symptoms. Hence, we rendered the network approach to reveal the symptoms of anxiety and depression among chronic gastritis patients. Three hundred and sixty-nine chronic gastritis patients (female = 139, M_age = 55.87 years) were asked to complete the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and Self-Rating Depression Scale. Three symptom networks and one directed acyclic graph (DAG) network were formed. First, in the anxiety network of chronic gastritis patients, dizziness was the most influential symptom. In the depression network of c

SUBMITTER: Tang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11444727 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature