Background & Aims: Unexplained, multi-system somatic symptoms and syndromes, the
hallmark features of somatization, are prevalent in patients with functional gastrointestinal …

Background & Aims: Somatization disorder, a female predominant disorder, has been found
with higher than expected prevalence in previous studies of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) …

Background Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) patients report poor health‐related
quality of life (HRQOL) and experience high rates of psychiatric and extraintestinal functional …

Background & Aims Understanding the interactions between brain and gastrointestinal
disorders requires analysis of the order of disease onset. We analyzed data from 2 …

Objective Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) have been shown to be associated
with both comorbid mood disorders and traumatic events such as abuse earlier in life. In a …

BACKGROUND It is unclear why patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) consume a
disproportionate amount of health-care resources versus matched controls. One possibility …

Objective Psychological factors are known to be associated with functional gastrointestinal
disorders (FGIDs) including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia (FD) …

Methods: The Hopkins Bowel Symptom Questionnaire (BSQ) and the SCL 90-R were
administered to 133 consecutive patients that met the Rome I criteria for IBS. The BSQ …

Abstract OBJECTIVES: Functional GI disorders (FGIDs) are common in clinical practice, but
little is known about the epidemiology of these disorders in the general population. We …

Background and Goal: The current diagnostic concept of somatic symptom disorder (SSD)
aims to capture psychological burden due to bodily complaints independent of the medical …