Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Suite 206 Chicago, IL 60612, United States.
J Crohns Colitis. 2008 Sep;2(3):193-201. doi: 10.1016/j.crohns.2008.01.002. Epub 2008 Mar 10.
The goals of this paper are: 1) to critically review and analyze the methodology of the studies since 1990 linking stress to inflammatory bowel disease; and 2) to make recommendations for future research in this area of research.
Articles were restricted to empirical reports in the English language with human subjects. Eleven empirical articles were able to answer "How is psychological stress related to inflammation and/or the expression or course of inflammatory bowel disease?"
Studies varied by choice of participant groups, method for classifying disease activity, choice of design, and definition and measurement of stress. Only half of the studies supported the hypothesis that stress affected IBD in some way.
Current methodological limitations in the stress and gut inflammation research have made it difficult for us to ascertain the role of stress in inflammatory bowel disease. Authors provide a checklist of items to consider when designing future studies.
本文的目标是:1)批判性地回顾和分析自 1990 年以来将压力与炎症性肠病联系起来的研究方法;2)为该领域的未来研究提出建议。
本文仅限于以人类为对象的英语实证报告。有 11 篇实证文章能够回答“心理压力与炎症和/或炎症性肠病的表达或病程有何关系?”这一问题。
研究因参与者群体的选择、疾病活动分类方法、设计选择以及压力的定义和测量而有所不同。只有一半的研究支持压力以某种方式影响 IBD 的假设。
目前压力和肠道炎症研究中的方法学限制使得我们难以确定压力在炎症性肠病中的作用。作者提供了一份设计未来研究时需要考虑的项目清单。