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Abstract
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) describes a group of chronic gastrointestinal tract diseases that are relapsing and remitting; the term primarily involves Crohn’s disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). The prevalence of these diseases has expanded in the past decades in Western populations, up to 120–200/100000 and 50–200/100000 persons for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, respectively. Patients reported that ulcerative colitis had a substantial negative impact on their Productivity at Work and in daily non Work activities, and these impairments were larger for Patients with Active disease. IBD patients with anxiety and depressive symptoms have a lower quality of life and the course of disease is worse in patients with depression. In patients with ulcerative colitis approach coping is linked to better psychological outcomes such as life satisfaction and lower psychological distress and depression. In contrast, escape-avoidance coping is associated with poor results including psychiatric distress, helplessness and less illness acceptance.