Somatization symptomology and its association with stress in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Saira Akhlaq; Nosheen Kazmi; Syed Murtaza Hassan Kazmi; Muslim Atiq; Sajawal Hussain; Ahmed Bajwa; Abdul Ahad; Muhammad Yaqoob Akhtar; Kalsoom Akhlaq; Mohammad Rizwan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0312506

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Somatization symptomology and its association with stress in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Saira Akhlaq ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: saira.sshpe@stmu.edu.pk

Affiliation Shifa School of Health Professions Education, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3645-0850

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Nosheen Kazmi,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Syed Murtaza Hassan Kazmi,

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7883-9794

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Muslim Atiq,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Sajawal Hussain,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration

Affiliation Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Ahmed Bajwa,

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Abdul Ahad,

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Muhammad Yaqoob Akhtar,

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Kalsoom Akhlaq,

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Mohammad Rizwan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Somatization symptomology and its association with stress in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Saira Akhlaq,
Nosheen Kazmi,
Syed Murtaza Hassan Kazmi,
Muslim Atiq,
Sajawal Hussain,
Ahmed Bajwa,
Abdul Ahad,
Muhammad Yaqoob Akhtar,
Kalsoom Akhlaq,
Mohammad Rizwan

Published: January 6, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312506

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