The temporal relationship of daily life stress, emotions, and bowel symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome —Diarrhea subtype: A smartphone‐based experience sampling study

Conclusions and InferencesESM unveiled the dynamic relationship between bowel symptoms, stress, and emotionality. Patients with IBS ‐D responded to bowel symptoms with more stress and distress momentarily. Counter‐intuitively, daily life activity stress appeared to ameliorate bowel symptoms, although a more rigorous study design is required to testify this claim. Psychological understanding of IBS‐D is discussed.
Source: Neurogastroenterology and Motility - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research