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The Role of Psychological Stress in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Quality Assessment of Methods of 18 Prospective Studies and Suggestions for Future Research
Author(s) -
Rafael J. A. Cámara,
Roger Ziegler,
Stefan Begré,
Alain Schoepfer,
Roland von Känel
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
digestion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.882
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1421-9867
pISSN - 0012-2823
DOI - 10.1159/000226087
Subject(s) - observational study , medicine , clinical study design , inflammatory bowel disease , sample size determination , research design , clinical psychology , strengths and weaknesses , prospective cohort study , experience sampling method , disease , psychology , family medicine , clinical trial , social psychology , social science , statistics , mathematics , sociology
Enquiries among patients on the one hand and experimental and observational studies on the other suggest an influence of stress on inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). However, since this influence remains hypothetical, further research is essential. We aimed to devise recommendations for future investigations in IBD by means of scrutinizing previously applied methodology.

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