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Emotion Focused Therapy in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients

NCT02657668 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2016-01-18

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Summary

The study was quasi-experimental including patients in two intervention and control groups. Three measurements were done: pretest, post-test, and a two-months follow-up. The study population included patients with irritable bowel syndrome(diagnosed by specialists and based on the criteria of Rome III), who referred to a general Hospital. Fifty two irritable bowel syndrome patients were selected and assigned to two experiment (26 cases) and control (26 cases) groups. The criteria below were considered in selection of patients.

Inclusion criteria: 1) Patients should not have participated in other psychological interventions concurrently; 2) Participants had not reported diagnosis of non-functional gastrointestinal illnesses. 3) Women patients had not been in pregnancy; 4) Participants had not met diagnosis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.

Exclusion criteria: Three or more absences in the group sessions Co-variate variables: 1) demo-graphical variables (age, birth order, and education); 2) clinical variables (global psychological status, mind-body attribution, and duration of disease).

Conditions

  • Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emotion Focused Therapy

EFT was conducted in eight sessions (without pretest and posttest sessions) according to Greenberg's manual (22) in a clinic of gastrointestinal patients. According to Greenberg manual, EFT consists of three steps: 1) emotional awareness 2) accessing healthy emotions 3) skills of emotional intelligence. There were five individuals in the posttest (because of being absent more than three sessions or not participating in the posttest).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-01-31
Completion
2014-10-31

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