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. 1974 Jul;50(585):416–419. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.50.585.416

Psychological characteristics of patients with the irritable bowel syndrome

R L Palmer, A H Crisp, E Stonehill, Sheila L Waller, J J Misiewicz
PMCID: PMC2495791  PMID: 4469032

Abstract

The Eysenck Personality Inventory, the Middlesex Hospital questionnaire, and forearm blood-flow were used to measure aspects of psychological status in forty-one patients with the irritable bowel syndrome, who were compared in this respect with twenty-five matched psychoneurotic subjects and with a general population. The results show a positive association between psychoneurotic disorder and the irritable bowel syndrome.

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