Psychological characteristics of patients with the irritable bowel syndrome
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- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Vol. 50 (585) , 416-419
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.50.585.416
Abstract
Summary: The Eysenck Personality Inventory, the Middlesex Hospital questionnaire, and forearm blood-flow were used to measure aspects of psychological status in forty-one patients with the irritable bowel syndrome, who were compared in this respect with twenty-five matched psychoneurotic subjects and with a general population. The results show a positive association between psychoneurotic disorder and the irritable bowel syndrome.Keywords
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