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2350 – Pain Engagement And Disengagement, Self-reported Health And Illness Behaviour In Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

M. Martin  and
S.C.E. Chapman
M. Martin
Affiliation:
Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford
S.C.E. Chapman
Affiliation:
Practice and Policy, School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, UK

Abstract

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Introduction

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is characterised by persistent symptoms in the absence of structural abnormality.

Objectives

To discover if people with IBS exhibit atypical patterns of attention to symbolic pain stimuli.

Aims

To investigate whether IBS is linked to enhanced engagement with pain words and slower disengagement.

Methods

Exogenous cueing was carried out with 20 IBS and 33 healthy participants. Participants responded to a dot following on the same or other side of the screen, allowing measurement of engagement and disengagement.

Results

ANCOVAs were carried out. The IBS group engaged more with Pain and Social Threat words, and had greater difficulty in disengaging from Pain but not from Social Threat (see Figures 1 and 2). Difficulty in disengaging from Pain was linked to greater symptom severity.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E1479
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2012
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