Reviewer's report
Title:Prevalence of mood and anxiety disorder in self reported irritable bowel
syndrome (IBS). An epidemiological population based study of women
Version: 1Date:26 April 2010
Reviewer: Bodil Ohlsson
Reviewer's report:
General comment
This is an interesting report dealing about an actual area. I think that the study is
well written in all aspects without one. I do not understand if the subjects are
interviewed personally or by questionnires sent home to them. PLease clarify this
in the methods by one heading called study design. If the subjects are
interviewed personally, this must have taken a lot of time. Were the subjects
contacted by mail or phone? PLease clarify how it practically was performed.
As the psychosomatic aspect was not examined, the authors can not propose
IBS as a psychosomaric disease. The psychiatric sdiseases may be secondary
to chronic abdominal pain. We do not know what come first, the IBS or the
psychiatric problems.May be this information can be extracted from the
interviews.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Prevalence of mood and anxiety disorder in self reported irritable bowel
syndrome (IBS). An epidemiological population based study of women
Version: 1Date:26 April 2010
Reviewer: Bodil Ohlsson
Reviewer's report:
General comment
This is an interesting report dealing about an actual area. I think that the study is
well written in all aspects without one. I do not understand if the subjects are
interviewed personally or by questionnires sent home to them. PLease clarify this
in the methods by one heading called study design. If the subjects are
interviewed personally, this must have taken a lot of time. Were the subjects
contacted by mail or phone? PLease clarify how it practically was performed.
As the psychosomatic aspect was not examined, the authors can not propose
IBS as a psychosomaric disease. The psychiatric sdiseases may be secondary
to chronic abdominal pain. We do not know what come first, the IBS or the
psychiatric problems.May be this information can be extracted from the
interviews.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Prevalence of mood and anxiety disorder in self reported irritable bowel
syndrome (IBS). An epidemiological population based study of women
Version: 1Date:26 April 2010
Reviewer: Bodil Ohlsson
Reviewer's report:
General comment
This is an interesting report dealing about an actual area. I think that the study is
well written in all aspects without one. I do not understand if the subjects are
interviewed personally or by questionnires sent home to them. PLease clarify this
in the methods by one heading called study design. If the subjects are
interviewed personally, this must have taken a lot of time. Were the subjects
contacted by mail or phone? PLease clarify how it practically was performed.
As the psychosomatic aspect was not examined, the authors can not propose
IBS as a psychosomaric disease. The psychiatric sdiseases may be secondary
to chronic abdominal pain. We do not know what come first, the IBS or the
psychiatric problems.May be this information can be extracted from the
interviews.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
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