Research Article

Subthreshold Psychiatric Psychopathology in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Can It Be the Bridge between Gastroenterology and Psychiatry?

Table 2

Axis I and mood spectrum disorders in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Axis I diagnosis(N)%SpectrumMean + SDOverthreshold

Anxiety disorders
 Panic2418.5SCI-PAS25.99 ± 17.5426.2 (34)
 Panic with agoraphobia107.7
 Agoraphobia without panic attack21.5
 Single phobia43.1
 Anxiety NAS43.1
 GAD2620.0
 Social phobia21.5SCI-SHY39.47 ± 31.0723.8 (31)
 OCD10.8SCI-OBS39.64 ± 24.6919.2 (25)
Somatoform disorders21.5
Mood disorders
 Past major depressive episode1310.0SCI-MOODS38.25 ± 24.4520.8 (27)
 Current major depressive episode21.5
 Recurrent depression10.8Dep24.78 ± 17.24
 Dysthymia10.8Man13.48 ± 9.55
Somatization disorders10.8
Eating disorders
 Anorexia10.8SCI-ABS20.53 ± 19.6615.4 (20)
 Bulimia43.1
 BED00.0

SCI-PAS: Structured Clinical Interview for Panic-Agoraphobic Spectrum—self-report version; SCI-SHY: Structured Clinical Interview for Social Anxiety Spectrum; SCI-OBS: Structured Clinical Interview for Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum; SCI-MOODS: Structured Clinical Interview for Mood Spectrum; SCI-ABS: Structured Clinical Interview for Anorexic-Bulimic Spectrum.