Relational resources in gastrointestinal disease. Social support, dyadic coping and closeness to other

Within a biopsychosocial approach, the objective of this research was to explore relational resources involved in coping with gastrointestinal disease.Using a battery of tests on social support, dyadic coping and closeness to others we compared a sample of 103 patients with gastrointestinal disease to the reference populations and we examined possible differences between organic or functional diagnosis.The subjects with gastrointestinal disease, in contrast to the reference population, report...

Social support in patients with gastrointestinal diseases

Over the last few years there has been a change in lifestyle and eating habits. Therefore the psychological aspects (including stress) act as risk factors for the onset of gastrointestinal diseasesmore frequently than in the past, especially for not organic functional disorders, that affect 40%of the Western population (Ministry of Health, 2011) and damage the Quality of Life and patientsand health systems resources.Within the bio-psycho-social perspective of health promotion, gastrointestina...

Le risorse relazionali nella malattia gastrointestinale

Seguendo un approccio biopsicosociale (1), sono state indagate le risorse relazionali coinvoltenel fronteggiamento della malattia gastrointestinale, intesa come un evento stressanteinterpersonale.Mediante una batteria di questionari inerenti il supporto sociale (3), il coping diadico (4) e la vicinanza con gli Altri Significativi (5) sono stati confrontati i risultati di soggetti con patologiagastrointestinale (N=103) rispetto ai valori normativi; inoltre sono state considerate ledifferenze i...

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