Assessing mental health and the relation with variables of demographic and clinical in Crohn's disease patients; 2016-2017.

Nazarinasab, Masoumeh; Nematpour, Sorour; Seyedian, Seyed Saeed; Esfahanian, Nilufar · J Family Med Prim Care · 2019

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

Crohn's disease is a group of special diseases that are considered in psychiatric studies because there is a contrast between the physical and psychological diseases among the affected patients. The aim of this study was assessing mental health and the relation with variables of demographic and clinical in Crohn's disease patients. In this epidemiological study, 96 patients with Crohn's disease who referred to educational hospitals in Ahvaz during 2016--2017 were evaluated by demographic and clinical questionnaires and SCL-90 questionnaires for mental health, and the information was analyzed by SPSS software version 22. The mean physical complaints in subjects was 24.63 ± 4.08 and the mean mental health was calculated to be 187.75 ± 25.17. Multivariate analysis of mental health showed that steroid consumption (<i>P</i> value < 0.001) and nonsmoking (<i>P</i> value = 0.038) were associated with higher mental health in the individuals. Crohn's patients suffered from decreased mental parameters in dimensions such as physical complaints, obsession--compulsion behavior, sensitivity to interactions, depression, anxiety, aggression, phobia, psychosis, and paranoid thoughts.