Open AccessInitial Assessment of Post-traumatic Stress in a US Cohort of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients
Author(s) -
Tiffany Taft,
Alyse Bedell,
Meredith Craven,
Livia Guadagnoli,
Sarah Quinton,
Stephen B. Hanauer
Publication year - 2019
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/izz032
Subject(s) - medicine , inflammatory bowel disease , irritable bowel syndrome , disease , ulcerative colitis , cohort , gastroenterology
Post-traumatic stress (PTS), or the psycho-physiological response to a traumatic or life-threatening event, is implicated in medical patient outcomes. Emerging evidence suggests a complex relationship between PTS, the brain-gut axis, the gut microbiome, and immune function. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may be susceptible to PTS and its subsequent impacts. To date, no study has evaluated PTS in IBD in the United States.