Open AccessPrevalence of depression and anxiety in irritable bowel syndrome: A clinic based study from India
Author(s) -
Neeraj Kabra,
Abhijit Nadkarni
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.105520
Subject(s) - irritable bowel syndrome , anxiety , depression (economics) , hamilton anxiety rating scale , medicine , psychiatry , odds ratio , rating scale , hospital anxiety and depression scale , psychology , economics , macroeconomics , developmental psychology
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a very common gastrointestinal dysfunction. Despite strong evidence of high prevalence of depression and anxiety in IBS there is very limited research on this in India.