Open AccessPosttraumatic Stress in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Prevalence and Relationships to Patient-Reported Outcomes
Author(s) -
Tiffany Taft,
Sarah Quinton,
Sharon Jedel,
Madison Simons,
Ece Mutlu,
Stephen B. Hanauer
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
inflammatory bowel diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.932
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1536-4844
pISSN - 1078-0998
DOI - 10.1093/ibd/izab152
Subject(s) - medicine , inflammatory bowel disease , anxiety , irritable bowel syndrome , ulcerative colitis , depression (economics) , hypervigilance , mood , disease , cohort , physical therapy , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics
Patients with chronic illness are at increased risk for traumatic stress because of medical trauma. Initial studies of posttraumatic stress (PTS) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have found that approximately one-third of patients may experience significant PTS symptoms including flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, disrupted sleep, and low mood. We aim to better characterize PTS in IBD and its relationship with patient outcomes in a large cohort of patients with IBD.