Gastrointestinal symptom-specific anxiety is associated with disability in inflammatory bowel diseases independent of general anxiety and self-reported disease activity: evidence from a large cross-se
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- Gastrointestinal symptom-specific anxiety (GSA) is distinct from general anxiety, with 38.0% of IBD patients reporting GSA without general anxiety.
- GSA is significantly associated with IBD-related disability, even when controlling for general anxiety, disease activity, and other variables.
- General anxiety shows the strongest association with disability (β=.27), but GSA's association (β=0.22) is stronger than that of clinical disease activity (β=.18) and other demographic/clinical factors.