Cure8 research brief
PTG and psychological wellbeing matter to many people with IBD. This study indicates that addressing stigma and promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours could be linked with better psychological outcomes, making these relevant targets for supportive care.
Adult IBD patients, mental-health clinicians and gastroenterology teams, researchers studying psychosocial outcomes in IBD, and patient advocacy groups focused on stigma and quality of life.
This research used standardized questionnaires (IBD Disability Index, Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II, Stigma Scale for Chronic Illness, and PTG Inventory) and statistical mediation analysis to explore relationships among variables in a hospital-based Chinese sample.
The findings suggest two intervention targets — reducing illness-related stigma and supporting health-promoting lifestyle behaviours — as possible ways to support psychological rehabilitation and enhance PTG in people living with IBD.
The study is cross-sectional, so it can identify associations and possible mediation pathways but cannot prove causation or temporal order.
This is a cross-sectional study from three tertiary hospitals in Shanghai using self-report scales; results describe associations in this sample and do not establish causation. Cultural and healthcare-context differences may affect generalizability.
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