Abstract
AIM: The psychiatric and psychosocial aetiology of Functional dyspepsia is not well known. In the present study, our aim is to determine the relative contributions of psychiatric predictors – i.e. ...
Highlights
Dyspepsia is a symptom that involved pain and/or discomfort in epigastric area and it is actively seen in 20– 40% of people all over the world [1]
Tour aim is to determine the relative contributions of psychiatric predictors – i.e. depression, anxiety, somatization, alexithymia – in relation with socio-psychological factors, their personal characteristics and perceived social support, in distinguishing functional dyspepsia (FD) from organic dyspepsia and healthy samples
Groups did not significantly differ on socio-demographics, except that healthy control (HC) were significantly younger than organic dyspepsia (OD) and the female/male ratio was significantly higher in HC compared to OD and FD
Summary
Dyspepsia is a symptom that involved pain and/or discomfort in epigastric area and it is actively seen in 20– 40% of people all over the world [1]. There can be no organic reason in 70–80% of patients with chronic dyspeptic symptoms and this condition is called as functional dyspepsia (FD) [2,3,4]. The psychiatric aetiology might distinguish FD from organic dyspepsia (OD), given that several psychiatric conditions (such as depression, anxiety and the problems of processing emotions) co-exist with FD. The psychological-social aetiology of FD is not well known. Tour aim is to determine the relative contributions of psychiatric predictors – i.e. depression, anxiety, somatization, alexithymia – in relation with socio-psychological factors, their personal characteristics (i.e. emotional attachment) and perceived social support, in distinguishing FD from organic dyspepsia and healthy samples
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