NCT01886027

Stress Management for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wayne State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary goal of this study is to test the efficacy of emotional awareness and expression training (EAET), a novel emotional processing intervention that the investigators have developed, for people with IBS. In this randomized, controlled trial, the investigators will compare EAET to a standard intervention that teaches the conceptually opposite approach-relaxation training (RT)-and test how both of these interventions compare to a wait-list control condition. The investigators hypothesize that individuals in the EAET group will demonstrate greater improvement in their IBS symptom severity, psychological functioning, quality of life, and health care utilization at 4 and 12-week follow-up time points, compared to individuals in the wait-list control group. It is also expected that both of the active interventions (EAET and RT) will be more efficacious than the wait-list control condition.

Conditions

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Emotional Awareness and Expression Training	An emotional processing intervention, which aims to reduce stress by helping patients become aware of, and express emotions related to stressful life experiences, as well as teaching patients how to relate to others differently.
BEHAVIORAL	Relaxation Training	Teaches patients different relaxation training skills to reduce their distress and discomfort (i.e., progressive muscle relaxation, applied relaxation, or guided imagery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2013-06-25
• Last updated: 2015-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States