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Psychology

Mental Health Burden and Screening in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Quick fact

Roughly 20–50% of people with IBD experience clinically significant anxiety or depression during their illness, yet fewer than half receive mental health screening or treatment. This psychiatric burden is linked to worse disease activity, higher relapse rates, and reduced quality of life.

Why this is interesting

When you think of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), you probably imagine gut pain and diarrhea—but did you know that anxiety and depression strike up to half of IBD patients? Why does a disease of the intestines so profoundly affect the mind?