Real-world data about emotional stress, disability and need for social care in a German IBD patient cohort

Alica Kubesch, Patric Boulahrout, Natalie Filmann, Irina Blumenstein and Johannes Hausmann

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: To date, there is insufficient insight into inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated stress, recognized disability, and contact with the social care system. We aimed to assess these parameters in IBD patients and a non-IBD control group, who were invited to participate in an online survey developed specifically for this study (www.soscisurvey.de) with the help of IBD patients. 505 IBD patients and 166 volunteers (i.e., control group) participated in the survey. IBD patients reported significantly increased levels of stress within the last six months and five years (p

Date: 2020
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