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KMID : 0368819920310050916
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Journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatr Association
1992 Volume.31 No. 5 p.916 ~ p.923
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Stress Perception of Patients with Peptic Ulcer
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Abstract
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Stress perception was investigated in 98 outpatient with peptic ulcer. 63% were fount to be psychosomatic patients, whose stress perception was higher than that of nonpsychosomatic patients. The proportion of psychosomatic disorder in patients
with
duodenal ulcer was higher than in those with gastric ulcer. This indicates that patients with duodenal ulcer were more susceptible to psychological stressors than patients with gastric ulcer. However, there was no significant difference in stress
perception and frequency of stressors. during one-year period between both the groups of patients. Severity of current symptoms correlated positively with stress perception and frequency stressors. whereas the size of ulcer did not correlate with
them.
This finding suggests that factors other than stress are more likely to be involved in ulcer formation. Although stress is directly associated with subjective change. Female. younger age. higher education. Shorter duration of illness, severe
symptom
younger presence of stressors at either onset or aggravation of illness were found to be variables influencing stress perception and frequency of stressors. Thus, members of treatment team should consider these variables in therapeutic approach
for
patients with peptic ulcer.
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