Functional Bowel Disorders
- D. Drossman, Zhiming Li, E. Guthrie
- MedicineAmerican Journal of Gastroenterology
- 1 May 1995
The FBDSI can be used to select patients for research protocols and/or follow their clinical outcome or response to treatments over time to develop a functional bowel disorder severity index for research and clinical care.
U. S. Householder survey of functional gastrointestinal disorders
- D. Drossman, Zhiming Li, G. Koch
- MedicineDigestive Diseases and Sciences
- 1 September 1993
Symptom reporting, except for incontinence, declines with age, and low income is associated with greater symptom reporting, and the rate of work/school absenteeism and physician visits is increased for those having a functional gastrointestinal disorder.
Sexual and Physical Abuse History in Gastroenterology Practice: How Types of Abuse Impact Health Status
- J. Leserman, D. Drossman, Zhiming Li, T. Toomey, G. Nachman, Louise Glogau
- Medicine, PsychologyPsychosomatic Medicine
- 1 January 1996
It is found that asking about abuse should be integrated into history taking within referral-based gastroenterology practices and seem to have worse health effects than less serious physical violence, and sexual abuse involving attempts and touch.
Effects of Coping on Health Outcome Among Women With Gastrointestinal Disorders
- D. Drossman, J. Leserman, Zhiming Li, F. Keefe, Yuming J. B. Hu, T. Toomey
- Medicine, PsychologyPsychosomatic Medicine
- 1 May 2000
Maladaptive coping (eg, catastrophizing) and decreased self-perceived ability to decrease symptoms may adversely affect health outcome and may modify the effect of GI disease type and neuroticism on health outcome.
Health status and health care use in persons with inflammatory bowel disease
- D. Drossman, J. Leserman, C. Madeline Mitchell, Zhiming Li, E. Zagami, D. Patrick
- MedicineDigestive Diseases and Sciences
- 1 December 1991
Despite a number of symptoms and complications related to inflammatory bowel disease, the health status of this population is generally good and may be a result of effective coping styles, and both psychosocial and physical health variables are related to number of physician visits.
Impact of Sexual and Physical Abuse Dimensions on Health Status: Development of an Abuse Severity Measure
- J. Leserman, Zhiming Li, D. Drossman, T. Toomey, G. Nachman, Louise Glogau
- Medicine, PsychologyPsychosomatic Medicine
- 1 March 1997
An abuse severity measure is created which explained about one fourth of the variance in health status among the subgroup with abuse history, and among the entire clinic sample.
Health status by gastrointestinal diagnosis and abuse history
- D. Drossman, Zhiming Li, J. Leserman, T. Toomey, Y. Hu
- Medicine, Psychology
- 1 April 1996
The type of diagnosis and abuse history independently contributed to the health status of this population of patients and medical symptoms alone may not be sufficient to understand patients' health status.
Cross-cultural variation in disease-related concerns among patients with inflammatory bowel disease
- S. Levenstein, Zhiming Li, D. Drossman
- MedicineAmerican Journal of Gastroenterology
- 15 April 1998
Cross-cultural comparisons of patient concerns related to IBD are feasible using translated scales and reporting tendencies vary greatly; within Europe, patients from southern countries report greater overall concern.
3 Is functional dyspepsia just a subset of the irritable bowel syndrome
- W. Whitehead, N. Gibbs, Zhiming Li, D. Drossman
- Medicine, Psychology
- 1 September 1998
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