Editorial by the Editor-in-Chief

In this issue you will find an original paper, which is a result of a collaborative effort between St. Elisabeth Hospital and the Institute of Psychology at the Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw. A preliminary report from the ongoing research was published in our journal several years ago. In the current issue, the authors present their final results of a psychological analysis in 110 patients with benign proctological conditions. These diseases are particularly stressful due to both patient anxiety associated with treatment and potential complications (e.g. the need for a stoma), as well as the intimate nature of symptoms and their adverse effects on social functioning. The authors observed, among other thing

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