Psychosomatic Profiles and Their Association with Health Behaviors in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Low Disease Activity.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are chronic conditions with significant psychological comorbidities. Research on subclinical psychosomatic syndromes in this category of patients remains limited. This study aimed to identify distinct psychosomatic profiles using the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research-Revised (DCPR-R) framework and to examine their associations with health behaviors. Methods: A total of 111 adult IBD patients in clinical remission or with low disease activity were enrolled and underwent a comprehensive assessment of sociodemographic and clinical variables, psychosomatic syndromes and health behaviors. Hierarchical clustering using complete linkage and Jaccard distance was performed on two subsets of common psychosomatic syn

SUBMITTER: Gigante G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12653361 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature