Trial reportNeurogastroenterology and motility2017
Emotional awareness and expression training improves irritable bowel syndrome: A randomized controlled trial.
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Stress Management for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Online "Pain, Stress & Emotions" Class in Chronic Pain: Single-arm Efficacy Test
Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychological intervention in patients with central sensitization syndromes and comorbid psychosocial trauma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy vs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain in Older Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Improvements in mindfulness, interoceptive and emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal emotion management following completion of an online emotional skills training program.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Trial
- The Effects of a Life Stress Emotional Awareness and Expression Interview for Women with Chronic Urogenital Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Trial
- A life-stress, emotional awareness, and expression interview for primary care patients with medically unexplained symptoms: A randomized controlled trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Trial
- Ambivalence over emotional expression and perceived social constraints as moderators of relaxation training and emotional awareness and expression training for irritable bowel syndrome.General hospital psychiatryTrial
- Novel psychotherapy approaches for patients with chronic noncancer pain: Effective modalities relevant to family practice.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025Review
- To feel is to heal-introduction to Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy.Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Review
- Cardiac Vagal Control and Emotional Awareness Associated With Pain Among Breast Cancer Survivors.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Differences in Emotional Awareness Moderate Cytokine-Symptom Associations Among Breast Cancer Survivors.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Article
- Emotion, proficiency, and arousal: exploring speech and physiological responses in Chinese ESL learners.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- A multidisciplinary approach to the management of disorders of gut-brain interaction: psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and diet.Frontiers in gastroenterology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Internet-delivered emotional awareness and expression therapy for somatic symptom disorder: one year follow-up.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy with complementary awareness and emotional expression training for alleviating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).Gastroenterology and hepatology from bed to bench · 2024Article
- Psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy for chronic back pain: hypothesis and trial rationale.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Emotional Awareness and Expression Interview: Examining Interview Content and Patient Experiences in Two Medical Samples.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2023Article
- Eliciting emotional expressions in psychodynamic psychotherapies using telehealth: a clinical review and single case study using emotional awareness and expression therapy.Psychoanalytic psychotherapy · 2022Article
- Higher emotional awareness is associated with greater domain-general reflective tendencies.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Proteomic analysis of rat colonic mucosa following acupuncture treatment for irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea.PloS one · 2022Article
- "Pain, Stress, and Emotions": Uncontrolled trial of a single-session, telehealth, emotional awareness and expression therapy class for patients with chronic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrent clinical guidelines identify several psychological treatments for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS patients, however, have elevated trauma, life stress, relationship conflicts, and emotional avoidance, which few therapies directly target. We tested the effects of emotional awareness and expression training (EAET) compared to an evidence-based comparison condition-relaxation training-and a waitlist control condition.
methodsAdults with IBS (N=106; 80% female, Mean age=36 years) were randomized to EAET, relaxation training, or waitlist control. Both EAET and relaxation training were administered in three, weekly, 50-minute, individual sessions. All patients completed the IBS Symptom Severity Scale (primary outcome), IBS Quality of Life, and Brief Symptom Inventory (anxiety, depressive, and hostility symptoms) at pretreatment and at 2 weeks posttreatment and 10 weeks follow-up (primary endpoint). KEY
resultsCompared to waitlist controls, EAET, but not relaxation training, significantly reduced IBS symptom severity at 10-week follow-up. Both EAET and relaxation training improved quality of life at follow-up. Finally, EAET did not reduce psychological symptoms, whereas relaxation training reduced depressive symptoms at follow-up (and anxiety symptoms at posttreatment). CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES: Brief emotional awareness and expression training that targeted trauma and emotional conflicts reduced somatic symptoms and improved quality of life in patients with IBS. This emotion-focused approach may be considered an additional treatment option for IBS, although research should compare EAET to a full cognitive-behavioral protocol and determine which patients are best suited for each approach. Registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01886027).
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