Comparing Pain Anxiety, Distress Tolerance and Mindfulness in the People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Normal Ones

IBS is a serious syndrome which damages people’s psychological, communicative, social and emotional processes. Therefore the present study was conducted aiming to compare Pain anxiety, distress tolerance and mindfulness in the people with Irritable IBS and normal ones.

It had a case-control study method. The statistical population included the people with IBS referring to gastroenterologists and normal ones in the city of Isfahan in 2018. The sample size was 150 people with IBS and 150 normal in the city of Isfahan who were selected through non-random convenient sampling method. The applied questionnaires included Pain anxiety questionnaire (McCracken, 1992), distress tolerance questionnaire (Simons & Gaher, 2005) and mindfulness questionnaire (Baer et al, 2003) and impulsivity (Bart et.al, 2004). After collecting questionnaires and extracting raw data, the data analysis was done via SPSS 23 software through ttest.

The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between Pain anxiety, distress tolerance and mindfulness in the people with IBS and normal ones (p<0.001) in a way that people with IBS have lower integrative self-knowledge and higher impulsivity than normal ones.

According to the findings of the present study, the people with IBS have lower distress tolerance and mindfulness and higher Pain anxiety due to therapeutic and psychological involvement in their disease; so, there needs to use treatments such as third-wave psychological ones (mindfulness treatment and positivist psychotherapy)