Irritable Bowel Syndrome Hypnotherapy

Mind-Body Digestive Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: gut focused hypnotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01248013

05-0575

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary goal of the study was whether gut focused hypnotherapy, in a group format, was successful in reduction of symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. The secondary goal was to see if any outcome predictors could be determined.

Full description

Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome entering a group hypnotherapy program are asked to complete a series of questionnaires at the outset, and repeat a symptom severity scale at intervals over the one year period after termination of treatment. Eligibility was limited to patients with age greater than 20.

Outcome measures were improvement in symptom score. Outcome predictors studied included quality of relationships, measured with a Quality of Relationship Inventory and attribution of IBS to physical or emotional cause, measured with a Mind-Body IBS Questionnaire, both administered before onset of hypnotherapy.

Enrollment: 89 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome by Rome II criteria, age 20 and older

Exclusion criteria

• Age below 20

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)