title: Anxiety, personality traits and quality of life in functional dyspepsia-suffering patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Psychosocial stressors either acute or more sustained frequently precede the onset and exacerbation of the symptoms of the functional dyspepsia (FD). Depressive mood and quality of life have been already reported for interference in functional dyspepsia suffering patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  The examination were performed on 60 FD patients (30 females and 30 males), aged 20-79 years, 60 peptic ulcer subjects and 60 healthy volunteers in which we have investigate levels of anxiety and depression, personality traits and quality of life.
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to the Hamilton Depression and Anxiety Rating Scales, the population with FD had the average score which classified them into the group of patients with the moderate depression (20.57 ± 4.45). Personality traits estimation based on data obtained by the Eysenck personality questionnaire revealed higher neuroticism scores in the group with functional dyspepsia. Both parameters, level of the neuroticism and anxiety level, expressed highly significant level of mutual concordance. Patients with functional dyspepsia reported a greater adverse impact of symptoms of emotional distress and food and drink problems.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results are indicating that the depression and anxiety level is the highest in patients with functional dyspepsia and that anxiety level corroborates with the neuroticism level from the Eysenck scale. Psychological disturbances are influencing the quality of life mostly in patients with dyspepsia in the form of emotional distress and the problem with the food and beverage intake.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia. filipovic.branislav@gmail.com
authors.forename: Branka F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Filipović
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Randjelovic
authors.forename: Tatjana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ille
authors.forename: Olivera
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Markovic
authors.forename: Branislav
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Milovanović
authors.forename: Nada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kovacevic
authors.forename: Branislav R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Filipović
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology*; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011788:Quality of Life; D055815:Young Adult