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2020, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
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Background The prevalence of Crohn’s disease (CD) has markedly increased in Saudi Arabia over the past 3 decades.Patients’ awareness of the chronic recurrent course and potential risk of disease complications can lead to a wide range of psychological and interpersonal concerns. Patients’ cognition about the disease and treatment are important mediators as they explain the occurrence of individual differences in the individuals’ adjustment to chronic diseases. The aim of this study is to assess illness cognition of Saudi patients diagnosed with CD and to identify clinical predictors. Methods Consecutive patients with confirmed CD seen in the adult outpatient gastroenterology clinic at King Abdulaziz university hospital were recruited between January and December of 2019. Data was collected from interviews conducted with the patients and from the hospitals’ electronic medical records.The primary endpoint of the study was patients’ illness cognition according to the illness cognition q...
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2008
The relationship between Crohn's disease (CD) patients' perceptions of overall disease course to severity measures based on current symptomatology has not been fully explored. We sought to characterize CD patient perceptions of both overall disease course and current symptomatology based on an objective symptom scale and to explore the relationship between perceptions and current symptoms.
Psycho-social medicine, 2013
Because of the fluctuating and occasional character of Crohn's disease (CD), patients have to cope with a changeable condition of health. Personal perceived control is known to be an important element of adaptation to their medical condition. The objectives of this work are to determine if perceived personal control is predictive of the clinical activity of the disease and of psychological distress (depression, anxiety). The Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS), the causal dimension scale and the Clinical Global Impression (CGI; assessing perceived severity) were administered to 160 patients affected by Crohn's disease. Indicators of inflammation (CRP), disease duration and clinical activity of the disease were also asessed. Globally, CD patients perceive their disease as being personally neither controllable nor uncontrollable. Whereas psychological distress is significantly higher when the disease is active, the relationship between the variables appears complex. The f...
Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 2013
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Background and aims: Busy clinical settings often restrict the possibility to focus on concepts that determine health in a positive way, commonly assessed by using patient-reported outcomes (PROs). We aimed to explore which determinants of health (DHs) are important to people with Crohn's disease (CD), to understand possible gender differences and to analyze whether these DHs are covered by PROs used in CD. Methods: Two systematic literature reviews were done to identify relevant DHs and clinically relevant PROs. We conducted a qualitative narrative biographical study and mapped the patients' experiences to concepts that determine health in a positive way. Experiences, DHs and Abbreviations: DH, determinant of health; DHs, determinants of health; HP, health promotion.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2007
Background: Few published studies examine the influence of psychological treatment on health care utilization in Crohn's disease.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2009
Background: The Common Sense Model (CSM) of illness representations was used in the current study to examine the relative contribution of illness perceptions and coping strategies in explaining adjustment to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).Methods: Participants were 80 adults consecutively attending an outpatients' clinic with a diagnosis of either Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. Respondents completed and returned a questionnaire booklet that assessed illness perceptions, coping, and adjustment. Adjustment was measured from the perspectives of psychological distress, quality of life, and functional independence.Results: Illness perceptions (particularly perception of consequences of IBD) were uniformly the most consistent variables explaining adjustment to IBD. Coping did not significantly add to predicting adjustment once illness perceptions were controlled for and therefore did not mediate the relationship between illness perceptions and adjustment, as proposed in the CSM.Conclusions: The results suggest the importance of addressing illness perceptions in developing appropriate psychological interventions for IBD.(Inflamm Bowel Dis 2008)
Quality of Life Research, 2017
questionnaire composed of five parts: (1) demographic and clinical information; (2) health-related quality of life; (3) level of certainty; (4) self-epistemic authority; and (5) Internet information gathering habits regarding Crohn's disease. Results A significant positive correlation was demonstrated between levels of certainty and health-related quality of life. Self-epistemic authority correlated positively with certainty, while information gathering via the Internet was related to decreased certainty. Multiple regression analysis for factors associated with health-related quality of life showed a positive association with the level of certainty, while negative associations were found between Internet information seeking and disease activity with the quality of life. Conclusion Level of certainty proved an important variable associated with health-related quality of life in Crohn's disease patients. Improving patients' self-epistemic authority can increase certainty and, thus, improve health-related quality of life.
Journal of Gastroenterology, 2009
Background Although self-management is important for Crohn’s disease (CD), there is no research focusing on self-management, especially in worsening conditions. The purpose of this study was to investigate how quiescent CD patients cope with their conditions worsening. Methods A questionnaire containing six types of coping strategy for worsening conditions was created based on a semi-structured interview. Seventy-six quiescent CD patients participated in
Gastroenterology nursing : the official journal of the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates
Patients with greater inflammatory bowel disease activity readily identify poorer psychosocial outcomes; however, the role of gender, disease type, and individual illness perceptions facets are less well known. This study aimed to characterize the role of illness perceptions, gender, and disease type on anxiety, depression, and quality of life. Eighty-one patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (39 men, mean age 35 years) attending a tertiary hospital outpatient clinic were studied. Questionnaires used included the Manitoba Index, the Brief Illness Perceptions Questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the World Health Organization Brief Quality of Life Scale. Female patients with active disease tended to report increased anxiety, depression, and reduced quality of life. Regarding illness perceptions, patients with Crohn disease reported significantly more concerns about its chronicity, while female patients reported being significantly more concerned about...
Gastroenterology, 2001
former variables were measured by existing, evaluated questionnaires. QoC was assessed by the QUOTE-IBD (QoC through the Patients' Eyes), especially developed for the purpose of this study. QUOTE-IBD scores range from 0 to 10 (best). Questionnaires were sent to 1051 European and Israeli IBD patients, diagnosed between 1991 and 1993. RESULTS: Response rate was 78% (n=823). Ten patients had indeterminate colitis and were excluded from subsequent analyses. Of the remainder, 518 patients (64%) had received health care by a specialist during the last year, 196 patients with Crohn s disease (119 females; median age 40.5 yrs, range 22-84 yrs) and 322 patients with ulcerative colitis (151 females; median age 45 yrs, range 19-85 yrs). Data of these patients were analyzed by multiple regression analysis assuming a hierarchical (two-level) structure, and corrected for age, sex, diagnosis, smoking, marital status, type of hospital, way of administration of the questionnaire, social economic status, and geographic position. Total mean _+ SD OUOTE-IBD score in the study population was 9.0 + 12. The different dimensions of QoC scored as follows: competence of physician (9.3 _+ 1.7), accessibility of physician (8.8 _+ 1.7), information (8.6-'-2.1), continuity of care (9.0 + 1.6), hospital accommodation (9.6 +_ 1.4), courtesy (9.3 _+ 1.4), patient autonomy (9.1 _+ 2.6), and patient s expenses (8.9 +_ 2.7). All variables of the conceptual model, except coping, contributed significantly to 9oL, whereas of the separate dimensions of QoC, only information yielded significance (p = .008). CONCLUSION: The conceptual model appeared to be a realistic representation of the factors influencing QoL in IBD. We also found that providing optimal information could increase OoL in IBD.
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