A cross-sectional study of gastrointestinal symptoms, depressive symptoms and trait anxiety in young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

>Patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders have a high psychiatric co-morbidity. This study aimed to investigate and characterise gastrointestinal symptoms in relation to depressive symptoms and trait anxiety in a well-defined population of young adult psychiatric outpatients and healthy controls.

Methods

Gastrointestinal symptoms were assessed with the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (GSRS-IBS). Depressive symptoms were assessed with the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale- Self assessment (MADRS-S). Trait anxiety was estimated with three of the Swedish universities of Personality (SSP) scales: Somatic trait anxiety, Psychic trait anxiety and Stress susceptibility. Self-ratings were collected from 491 young adult

SUBMITTER: Soderquist F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7661167 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature