Carina Graf, Christoph Alexander Rüst, Joachim Koppenberg, Miodrag Filipovic, Wolf Hautz, Juliane Kaemmer, Urs Pietsch
Enhancing patient safety: detection of in-hospital hazards and effect of training on detection (by training in a low-fidelity simulation Room of Improvement based on hospital-specific CIRS cases)
BMJ open quality
article describes development validation gastrointestinal unhelpful thinking scale purpose research develop gastrointestinal unhelpful thinking scale assess tandem primary cognitiveaffective drivers braingut dysregulation gastrointestinalspecific visceral anxiety pain catastrophizing research involved 3 phases included undergraduate community samples first phase exploratory factor analysis revealed 15item 2factor visceral sensitivity pain catastrophizing scale n 323 confirmed second phase n 399 226 208 p 001 tuckerlewis index 094 comparative fit index 096 standardized root mean square residual 005 root mean square error approximation 007 demonstrating convergent validity gastrointestinal unhelpful thinking scale total subscales strongly correlated modified manitoba index irritable bowel syndrome symptom severity scale scores visceral sensitivity index pain catastrophizing scale third phase n 16 established testretest reliability gastrointestinal unhelpful thinking scale total subscales testretest reliability correlation coefficient gastrointestinal unhelpful thinking scale total score 93 p 001 subscales 86 p 001 94 p 001 respectively gastrointestinal unhelpful thinking scale brief psychometrically valid measure visceral anxiety pain catastrophizing useful clinicians researchers wish measure thinking patterns relate changes gastrointestinal psychological symptoms