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. 2022 Aug 11:15:2157-2167.
doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S376254. eCollection 2022.

Psychosocial Adaptation Among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients and Associated Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study

Yanhong Xu  1 , Ting Liu  1 , Yunxia Jiang  1 , Xianzhi Zhao  2 , Fei Meng  1 , Guangyi Xu  1 , Mengjiao Zhao  1
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Psychosocial Adaptation Among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients and Associated Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study

Yanhong Xu et al. Psychol Res Behav Manag. .

Abstract

Purpose: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from physical symptoms and psychosocial issues. This generates risks of psychosocial maladjustment that is closely linked with self-care ability and health-related quality of life. The study aimed to explore psychosocial adaptation of IBD patients in China and the influencing factors from individual and family levels.

Patients and methods: Using a cross-sectional design, 191 Chinese patients with IBD were recruited from October 2020 to September 2021. General information questionnaire, general family functioning scale, resilience scale for IBD, and psychosocial adaptation questionnaire for IBD were used for investigation. Multivariate linear regression was used to identify predictive factors of psychosocial adaptation.

Results: IBD patients reported a moderate level of psychosocial adaptation. Regression analysis showed that personal resilience especially the three dimensions (i.e., positive illness perception, disease management, and support from fellow IBD patients), general family functioning, and disease conditions (i.e., extra-intestinal manifestations and current disease status) were the main contributing factors of psychosocial adaptation, explaining 49.3% of the total variance.

Conclusion: The findings suggest that healthcare providers could focus on improving patients' illness perception about IBD and strengthening their disease management abilities, together with optimizing patients' family functioning to enhance their psychosocial adaptation level.

Keywords: family functioning; inflammatory bowel disease; psychosocial adaptation; resilience.

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