Psychological well-being of adult coeliac patients treated for 10 years

Reduced quality of life in coeliac disease is more strongly associated with depression than gastrointestinal symptoms

“…Contrary to predictions, and inconsistent with previous research in CD (15,19,21) and across a wide variety of health conditions (53,54), no gender differences in QOL were observed.…”

Psychological morbidity of celiac disease: A review of the literature

“…43 Finally, Roos et al showed similar psychological well-being in long-treated celiac patients and healthy controls. 16 Poor dietary adherence was associated with a poor QoL 8,10 but whether one causes the other remains unknown, and consequently it is unclear which is the cause and which the effect. A recent long-term longitudinal study suggested that subsequent deterioration in QoL was associated with a lack of dietary adherence.…”

“…[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Unfortunately, interest in the health perception of celiac patients has been affected by the lack of CD-specific QoL instruments allowing measurement of specific aspects of the disorder. Most studies exploring the QoL in CD patients used generic multi-item and multi-dimensional instruments developed for chronic disorders.…”

Psychosocial aspects of coeliac disease: A cross‐sectional survey of a UK population

“…For example, US-American (Green et al, 2001), Canadian (Zarkadas et al, 2006) and Swedish studies (Roos, Karner & Hallert, 2006) report an average HRQoL for adult celiac sufferers comparable with the general population; whereas studies conducted in Italy (Fera et al, 2003) Northern Ireland (O'Leary et al, 2002 and Germany (Häuser et al, 2006) demonstrate a reduced HRQL compared with the general population or healthy controls.…”