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مسائلي ن, خيرآبادي غ, افشار ح, مرآثي م ر, دقاق‌زاده ح, روح افزا ح ر. Relationship between quality of life and symptom severity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. RBS 2014; 11 (1) :39-45
URL: http://rbs.mui.ac.ir/article-1-296-en.html
Relationship between quality of life and symptom severity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome
نسرين مسائلي1 , غلامرضا خيرآبادي2 , حميد افشار3 , محمد رضا مرآثي4 , حامد دقاق‌زاده5 , حميد رضا روح افزا
1- استاديار، گروه روان‌پزشکي، مرکز تحقيقات علوم رفتاري، دانشگاه علوم پزشکي اصفهان، اصفهان، ايران
2- دانشيار، گروه روان‌پزشکي، مرکز تحقيقات سايکوسوماتيک، دانشگاه علوم پزشکي اصفهان، اصفهان، ايران
3- دانشيار، گروه اپيدميولوژي و آمار زيستي، دانشگاه علوم پزشکي اصفهان، اصفهان، ايران
4- دانشيار، گروه داخلي، مرکز تحقيقات سايکوسوماتيک، دانشگاه علوم پزشکي اصفهان، اصفهان، ايران
5- روان‌پزشک، مرکز تحقيقات سايکوسوماتيک، دانشگاه علوم پزشکي اصفهان، اصفهان، ايران
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Aim and Background: Improving the quality of life is the main goal of managements for all diseases. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between quality of life and symptom severity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Methods and Materials: Based on physician diagnosis using Rome III criteria, 225 patients with irritable bowel syndrome who were visited in a psychosomatic clinic in Isfahan, Iran were recruited. All the selected cases completed the irritable bowel syndrome-quality of life (IBS-QOL) and irritable bowel syndrome severity index (IBS-SI) questionnaires. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Findings: 65 (28.9%) patients were males and 160 (71.1%) were females with mean age of 38.6 ± 12.3 years and mean disease duration of 5.1 ± 4.3 years. Mean score of IBS-QOL and IBS-SI was 43.4 ± 20.7 and 238.9 ± 95.4, respectively. IBS-QOL score and IBS-SI score had a statistically significant positive correlation. Conclusions: The quality of life was inversely related to severity of symptoms in patients with IBS.
Keywords: Quality of life, Symptoms, Irritable bowel syndrome
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Received: 2020/02/8 | Accepted: 2020/02/9 | Published: 2020/02/9
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