Cure8 research brief
The study links worse UC activity with higher rates of anxiety and depression and with poorer quality of life among patients in Pakistan, suggesting mental-health screening could be relevant to overall disease management.
Adult ulcerative colitis patients, gastroenterologists and IBD clinic teams, mental-health providers working with IBD patients, and researchers studying quality-of-life and psychosocial comorbidities in IBD.
The study surveyed 101 adult UC outpatients using validated instruments: Mayo Score and Montreal classification for disease severity, HADS and BDI-II for anxiety/depression, and the IBDQ-32 for quality of life. Anxiety was present in 21.8% and depression in 17.8% of participants.
Higher Mayo scores and greater psychological distress were independently associated with lower IBDQ quality-of-life scores. The authors conclude that psychological burden is common and correlates with disease severity in this cohort, and they suggest considering mental-health assessment as part of holistic UC care.
The brief is grounded in the article abstract provided by PLOS One.
This report is a cross-sectional analysis from a single-center outpatient cohort in Pakistan (n=101); cross-sectional design shows associations but cannot prove cause-and-effect. Instruments and correlations are reported in the article abstract; full-text details would be needed to assess generalizability and potential confounders.
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