35 patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis of the Rechts der Isar university hospital, as well as 304 persons with the same diagnoses of the self-help group DCCV, are being subdivided into a group with, and a group without characteristics of personality disorders, using the psychometrical testing devices IPO, SCID-II, IIP-C, DSQ, TAS-20, BPI, and AAPR, according to the respective results of a cluster analysis on the one hand, and a psychometrical overall score on the other hand. The results are being compared to the course and the activity of the somatic disease. The groups with signs of personality disorders show all higher degrees of current somatic activity, whereas only the ulcerative colitis group shows a correlation between personality disorder and a more serious course of the somatic disease. Based upon these results, the group of patients suffering from ulcerative colitis seems to show a psycho-somatic influence of a possible diagnosis of a personality disorder on the course of their somatic disease, a similar influence is not found for patients with Crohn’s disease. Amongst the different scales those representing primitive defence styles and borderline disorders show predominant importance. All groups of inflammatory bowel disease patients show a higher degree of disorder than the examined healthy control group (n=42).
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35 patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis of the Rechts der Isar university hospital, as well as 304 persons with the same diagnoses of the self-help group DCCV, are being subdivided into a group with, and a group without characteristics of personality disorders, using the psychometrical testing devices IPO, SCID-II, IIP-C, DSQ, TAS-20, BPI, and AAPR, according to the respective results of a cluster analysis on the one hand, and a psychometrical overall score on the other hand. The...
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