Research Article: Heterogeneity in Psychological Adaptation Patterns and Its Predictive Factors Among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Latent Profile Analysis
Introduction:
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and life-threatening inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tissue. There are two main subtypes of IBD, ie, ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). IBD causes intestinal (e.g, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding) and extra-intestinal symptoms (eg, fatigue, anemia, and arthritis). The global disease burden of IBD has been increasing over the past few decades. The incidence is currently stable in Western countries. , However, over the past…
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